10,000 jobs could be lost to robots says Citi

[Matt Birkholz]

On Wed, 2018-06-13 at 16:17 -0700, Eric Oyen wrote:
> Ah yes,  technical humor!

I thought it was "meta humor", but I'll consider it a success.  Thanks!

> Anyway, here’s a different take on jobs, robots and the rest of us.
> 
> Robots are always going to need periodic updating, maintenance and upgrades. [...]

And shares in the companies that will make these outrageous profits can
be bought by anyone (but do wait for the stock bubble to pop).

How's this for a "take" on jobs:

   Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle
   accident and the collapse of civilization.
   - G. Bernard Shaw

>  So, those of us who are technically competent will still end up with jobs [...]

I know more physicists and engineers who went on to law, high-finance,
biotech&geology (in rapid succession in one case), and beer- and wine-
making (two individual cases) than those who stayed where they were.

>  You will also have the hobbyist tinkerer (like me) who will be[...]

...who will be (speaking collectively) the locus of the next disruptive
technology and, compounded, the singularity.  Pick your approach vector
carefully.