Originally Posted by
ValueNZ
I think you meant to reply to SailorRob, but anyway the point is that throughout history jobs have been made obsolete due to technological developments, and the same arguments you are making have been made constantly throughout history to stop the progress.
It's the idea that it is very, very difficult to be able to predict what jobs will be created after jobs are lost, but still throughout history there have been more jobs created than lost. Could this time be different? Maybe, but I wouldn't count on it.
Eventually we could get to a point where the world is so absurdly wealthy that working a job is somewhat unnecessary and unemployment will be very high. But then again, we live in a world that comparatively to history is absurdly wealthy but yet still many people have to work to keep up their ever-growing lifestyles.