Robots Aren’t Killing the American Dream
What scares me the most is that this wall of automation is all but invisible to most observers. Sure, some regular blue-collar workers will be rendered unemployable, which if done at a large enough scale will result in some civil unrest. Most would agree on this, and quite a few would call it a day and say &quot;we&#x27;ve got to do something---!&quot;.<p>But what really, really freaks me out is that the civil unrest will evolve into utter pandemonium when the well-educated, college-degree-holding, Volkswagen-driving white collar wearers start to disappear from the workforce en masse.<p>How many skyscrapers are in the big city nearest to you? Have you ever wondered what most of those people do all day, for 40+ hours a week? You can bet it&#x27;s not SQL, not Java or Python, or even golf with hopeful clientele. It&#x27;s Excel and Outlook, and when that ship sails and computers start to do (they already are!) those things for those people, it&#x27;s going to get very bad, very fast.