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Re:Robots Have Been About to Take All the Jobs for 100 Years by Avicebron on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @04:10PM (#35266467)
The question seems to be, will those manual jobs be valued and economically rewarded, or will automation increasingly concentrate wealth into smaller and smaller groups while manual work will be low paying with low social mobility.
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Re:Robots Have Been About to Take All the Jobs for 100 Years by lotsofpulp on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @04:52PM (#35266929)
Depends on the supply of labor for those manual jobs. Jobs that require skill and/or have low quality of life at work such as requiring traveling/crawl spaces/outdoors/sewers/dangerous machinery/hazardous materials will probably pay well.

Manual jobs that are relatively safe, close to home, steady, and easy to learn will probably have a lot of people vying for them, hence lower pay.

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