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[–] oddjob 5 points (+5|-0)

I have a hard time seeing waiters and waitresses ever being automated. We already have lots of restaurants without human waiters, their called fast food and not everyone wants to eat fast food. I also think truck drivers are way more likely to get automated than 79%.

[–] revmoo 1 points (+1|-0)

Already happening out west. Fast casual places with high-end food.

I've automated, by my estimate, 5-10 people out of a job in the last two years. I don't feel bad about it at all because the kind of work I automate, is the kind of work nobody should be doing anyway. There is a lot of dumb bullshit paper pushing that people do in all industries that really doesn't benefit society. As more jobs automate away, whole new industries open up. A lot of the raging against automation reminds me of the luddites back in the day. The horseless carriage was heralded as a destroyer of jobs. We all know how that worked out.

[–] oddjob 1 points (+1|-0) Edited

A lot of the raging against automation reminds me of the luddites back in the day. The horseless carriage was heralded as a destroyer of jobs. We all know how that worked out.

They became dumb bullshit paper pushers?

I don't have anything against automating jobs, I just don't think some of those jobs are in as much danger as they think.