&gt; It&#x27;s becoming clear that increased automation as well as the rise of artificial intelligence is threatening ever more jobs.<p>This sentence is absolute FUD.  Every technical revolution over the past 300 years has been made with automation and productivity, and yet people are still employed in new jobs in sectors that did not exist before.  Employing people to do menial obsolete jobs serves no purpose other than to delay the next evolution of ideas and products.<p>With this thinking we would still be handwriting books and riding horses.  In the future when driverless cars are prominent, people will ask in astonishment &quot;So you used to DRIVE your own car to work?&quot;