How would it create low-skilled workers? Read non-knowledge workers. It would need robots, which are not only expensive but are material –and we’re already using more material resources than we should. Something material can’t scale at the same speed as something digital. It is very unlikely that humanoid robots will be cheaper than cheap service labour (there’s a reason why they haven’t been automated yet, unlike factory work).
Also, being human can be a comparative advantage in itself. There’s lots of machines that do coffee, yet there’s still a pleasure in going to a coffee shop or having something handcrafted. As machine created products become more common and human created more expensive, people start fetishising human made products or services.
How would it create low-skilled workers? Read non-knowledge workers. It would need robots, which are not only expensive but are material –and we’re already using more material resources than we should. Something material can’t scale at the same speed as something digital. It is very unlikely that humanoid robots will be cheaper than cheap service labour (there’s a reason why they haven’t been automated yet, unlike factory work).
Also, being human can be a comparative advantage in itself. There’s lots of machines that do coffee, yet there’s still a pleasure in going to a coffee shop or having something handcrafted. As machine created products become more common and human created more expensive, people start fetishising human made products or services.