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True, but I doubt new jobs will be invented in the same number. Also those new jobs will demand a much higher education/qualification which is fine but then we

• fnordfnordfnord 13y ago
  That's right, at least as far as technology goes; by design, all tech that increases productivity will produce fewer new jobs than the ones it displaces. They will be better/more desirable jobs, but fewer. The previous workers aren't always well-suited to be retrained from box-packer to SCADA programmer, their kids, maybe so, but you've still got the ones who were originally displaced left to euthanize.
• marknutter 13y ago
  First, the poor don't need access to higher education, they need access to better primary education. The technology training in most public schools is pathetic to non-existent. Second, why would you doubt for a second that new jobs will be invented? Until AI improves there will always be a plethora of menial information technology jobs that would be the 21st century equivalent of assembling widgets.