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Re:As Tech Evaporates Jobs, “The Tipping Point Will Be Drive... by Udik on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @02:33AM (#11907514)
Because the current technological quest is, by definition, to build machines that cover any residual advantage human beings had on machines. In essence, the goal is to produce human beings - at least as far as working abilities are concerned - extremely cheap and infinitely available.
Re:As Tech Evaporates Jobs, “The Tipping Point Will Be Drive... by riffraff on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @02:41AM (#11907535)
But this has always been the quest, agriculture went from 80% of the workforce to 4% as productivity increased

EDIT: sorry sent too early

...what changes is the "residual advantage". Until some time ago we assumed machines would only replace people in simple tasks (e.g. mill). Than only repetitive, "mechanic" tasks (i.e. assembly line). Now we realize they can replace in tasks which require some intelligence (i.e. self driving cars) but still assume they won't replace us in some "smarter" jobs. It looks to me like each step is just incremental, I don't see the "tipping" point.

Re:As Tech Evaporates Jobs, “The Tipping Point Will Be Drive... by majewsky on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @05:28AM (#11908096)
I always say that we're lucky as developers since our job is likely one of the last to be automated away.
Re:As Tech Evaporates Jobs, “The Tipping Point Will Be Drive... by eru on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @07:03AM (#11908476)
We are automating quite a lot of it away (eg think compilers), but yes, there's probably lots of stuff left for humans to do until very late.