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Re:Jobs that no longer exist by 3pt14159 on Saturday October 15, 2016 @10:57AM (#12714130)
Well cloth / clothing manufacturing is probably the largest decrease I can think of. From the cotton pickers, to the spinsters, to the weavers, and tailors. Much of it has been mechanized.

The difference with robots though is that they can actually 100% out perform humans in the not to distant future. Once a robot has hands as agile and controllable as ours, and once they have energy requirements that are cheaper than ours, I don't see how humans could compete with them in non-cerebral jobs. And there is a good segment of the population that can only do physical work.

Re:Jobs that no longer exist by Waterluvian on Saturday October 15, 2016 @11:07AM (#12714178)
I would intuit that the proportion of labourers to the rest has been decreasing throughout human history. I think what has me most curious is how low can it go. Is it possible to have near 0% labourers?