Agreed on both counts. The whole thing about "education" as the answer that bothers me is the quicker these changes accelerate, the less realistic that option

Agreed on both counts. The whole thing about "education" as the answer that bothers me is the quicker these changes accelerate, the less realistic that option becomes. Humans just don't really learn that fast. Being "educated" (and here I'm including self-education, not just school learning) enough to be an in-demand technology worker is like a decade or more of learning currently and we're still pretty close to the start of the coming hockey stick of increased automation and job specialization so the amount of time required to learn skills that make you highly employable relative to a mostly automated replacement is likely to get worse, not better. The part about people just assuming the economy will sort this out like it did during/after the first mass-automating of manufacturing also bothers me in that there seems to be this misunderstanding that our modern economy is some old, almost geological timescale system (the sun will come up tomorrow, like it always does!), when it just... isn't. This modern economy we have is pretty new, just a few generations old. Basing any future predictions for it on a very limited set of past analogues seems incredibly dangerous and silly to me.