What If There Just Aren’t Enough Jobs to Go Around?
Not an economist but my thoughts on the topic are that society can make changes to accommodate this. This isn&#x27;t a catastrophe, we just need to prepare. I think this needs to&#x2F;will happen:<p>* labour will change from people having only one main skill to having multiple skills (&quot;jack of all trades, master of none&quot; will become &quot;jack of all trades, master of fewer&quot;)<p>* this will be made possible by the fact that technology makes is easier to (re)educate yourself and also to tailor education exactly for your needs (c.f. university course unbundling, what if you could take different courses at different school based on which fits your needs (kinda like, mooc, yeah, I know mooc aren&#x27;t the runaway success we&#x27;d hope for but give it time))<p>* we probably will not get rid of the issue that you have to pick a skill(s) when you are fairly young and you don&#x27;t know if those skill will still be useful when you have to leave the workforce<p>* basically, people will have to learn a couple of skills pretty well and hope that the future jobs will require a particular combination of your skills (and if you are lacking some skills, you should be able to pick up new skills easily)<p>* it will become standard for people to keep learning<p>* i also think that the &quot;default&quot; unemployment rate might rise  but unemployment will be more temporary for the single unemployed people<p>My view as someone who strongly believes in technological progress, I would guess I would summarize my advice as &quot;you have to know how to leverage technology not to be outpaced by technology&quot; but this isn&#x27;t exactly anything novel.