&gt;&gt; &quot;and rehashing that tired trope about how old jobs that got displaced by new technologies eventually were replaced with new, but different jobs we couldn’t fathom at the time.<p>That’s not the case this time. This time it’s different.&quot;<p>I guess the point here is that the author cant fathom new job types in the future, so therefore there will be no new job types in the future.  Glad we got that one settled!<p>This argument has been going on literally for hundreds of years.  Just because the author cant fathom new job types proves nothing.<p>People lose jobs because of decisions made by other people.  Science will not ever come to an end, and there will always be new job types because of that.<p>Just imagine when commercial space travel becomes a serious thing.  They will look back and say &quot;did you know once a month they used to argue on HN about how in the future there will be no jobs?  They were so silly because they didnt know about space travel.&quot;<p>And then someone else will say &quot;yea they were wrong then, but this time its different...&quot;