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The robots are coming! 12 million jobs lost to automation in Europe by 2040 – analyst

codejunky Silver badge

@hoola

"Society will not become richer as the money will all end up in the hands of a very small number of very wealthy corporations and people"

That seems to be the opposite of what we see. The poor countries are labour intensive and the more automated and richer countries have plenty automation. Not only do those richer countries have states providing many services (which people take for granted) but the people themselves are richer, even the poor.

"If the tax take drops because there are fewer people paying tax then what?"

First answer would be spend less. But taxation is huge and as a trend increasing. Wealthy countries no longer discussing their people in absolute poverty but instead people in relative poverty, because the first is practically solved.

"The only winners in automation are those are the top"

And everyone else too. We like to automate dull, repetitive jobs but also to give ourselves more free time for other things.

"Say that there will be future jobs that we don't know about is on the same lines as BJ stating the solution to the UKs Climate Goals are to invest in technology we don't know exists yet."

Not even close. The claim of a miracle technology is not the same as what has been observed for the entire human history.

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