A lot of people made the mistake that it will just be the unskilled jobs going. We near the point where many highly paid consultants in healthcare could face losing their jobs because AI is getting safer than them in diagnosing patients at a time where healthcare systems are looking for cuts to expenditure. The other argument that gets pushed is the concept that everyone will become maintenance engineers for robots, machines and computers. That could be the case in the short term but they can already self-diagnose and be made modular, making it easy for an unskilled minimum wage worker to replace a part in minutes. Eventually their jobs will go too.

The only people who will still be in jobs in the future will be business owners because they are not going to put themselves out of a job and politicians for the same reason. There are going to be a lot less jobs going around and a lot of people are going to find themselves unemployable. The older generation who are used to human contact may boycott automation so you'll still have jobs in the care sector but eventually as the next generation ages and is used to technology, that will go too. For everyone else who is now jobless, the words may be different but the sentiment will be the same as people say now - "learn to code".

Something that gets missed in the debate is the concept that when it replaces workers, its one less wage to pay. Bear in mind it is also one less pension, you don't need to pay out health insurance, sick pay, they don't need toilet or lunch breaks, don't need rest, don't have holidays, don't get pregnant or become fathers, don't have relatives pass away, don't need to adhere to health and safety law, don't go on strike and don't need workers rights. Can you compete with all of that?