The problem is that there are no large, underserved categories of value which unskilled labor can accomplish, where automation is not imminent.
This may well be true, but that has nothing to do with the three sectors. Automation doesn’t actually happen one sector at a time. It’s not like only service jobs are going to be automated soon. There are still people working in, e.g. agriculture, whose jobs will be automated too. Talking about sectors is completely pointless, it’s a non sequitur. You’d be better off just using the sentence quoted above instead.
”This means when a job is lost to automation, all the jobs that person could do **with that skill** are going away at the same time.”
I need you to show me that this wasn’t the case in the past. The farmer who was replaced by a tractor didn’t find another job that requires plowing.
What I want people to imagine are things like call centers (unskilled, but only recently automated because talking to people was hard for machines) and accounting or the law (which implies a high level of skill is not a guarantee).
How many people are threatened by that kind of automation? Is it a significant number, compared to truck drivers, wallmart workers and all the other jobs that do require physical machines?
This may well be true, but that has nothing to do with the three sectors. Automation doesn’t actually happen one sector at a time. It’s not like only service jobs are going to be automated soon. There are still people working in, e.g. agriculture, whose jobs will be automated too. Talking about sectors is completely pointless, it’s a non sequitur. You’d be better off just using the sentence quoted above instead.
I need you to show me that this wasn’t the case in the past. The farmer who was replaced by a tractor didn’t find another job that requires plowing.
How many people are threatened by that kind of automation? Is it a significant number, compared to truck drivers, wallmart workers and all the other jobs that do require physical machines?