Goddamn do I love kurzgesagt! I'm so impressed by their progress, and I'm elated to hear that their patreon is doing fantastic. Thanks for sharing this post, really enjoyed all the content :)

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Skynet is coming.

Automation is definitely going to make our lifes a lot easier. At some point we should be able to work a couple of hours a week, in fact we should already be able to work 15~ hours a week right now if it weren't for the current capitalistic system we have in place. I am not saying capitalism on its own is all bad, but due to robots replacing humans and the profit going to a single minority it removes jobs without a benefit to the common man. Since this progress of technology is going at a very rapid pace it also means a lot of people still have to adjust to this new reality we are heading towards. To answer your question, Steemit, the idea its founded on will help in this process towards a healthy environment on the internet. I actually wrote an article on this I posted just a day ago. 

If your interested in it here is the link: https://steemit.com/steemit/@droucil/how-an-idea-like-steemit-could-change-the-entire-internet

Welcome to the future.

I agree with you, but also note that some jobs are likely to always benefit from the human touch, like social work, teaching, choreography, makeup application, and a lot of healthcare positions. If we gain skills in these sectors, we are more likely to stay relevant even as the 'main players' in the world as we know it, change.

The new skill sets we will ned for the upcoming job market will be very different that the old traditional jobs

Get rid of ridiculous degrees=more jobs

Whatever that happens, i believe man is doing that for his betterment, there must be  circulation of money to people irrespective of who worked; machine or man, else it'll lose value. Thanks for sharing your thoughts @reggaemuffin

What about Universal Basic Income? There's a lot of talk about this lately and some countries are testing this out already. I recall that Elon Musk has said he thinks that it will be a solution to the automation problem.

I'm building gardening robots to help me in my garden.

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@reggaemuffin Until AI becomes a commercial and accepted reality, I think automation will only affect the jobs of the industrial era. As an educator, we now focus on providing kids with the skills to survive and compete in a society of which we don't know what the makeup will be. Jobs are disappearing, however, different job markets are opening too. More and more 'thinking skills' based jobs are appearing and we focus on employability skills rather than knowledge. 

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) areas have been identified as the skill shortage areas here in Australia at least. Only a few years ago I took a group of kids along to a local technological firm (one of the giant conglomerates) and asked them what they look for in a new employee. There answer was Thinking Skills. Analysing, inquiring, complex reasoning, etc. These are the transferable skills of the 21st century. And although there is a high level of automation across some job markets, I believe that different markets will open up to replace those that are lost. Will they be at the same rate? What will happen to those people who don't have the capability for accessing these higher order thinking skills jobs? Only time will tell I guess.

Automation has been replacing the need for human labour for decades things are just speeding up now. I think we are creating new jobs now, I look at people who are making a living from things like Youtube, Twitch, Chaturbate, and here on Steemit, and think that this is the future we are heading towards, an economy based around what you do/who you are in life.. My main fear is things are going to end up like the second episode of the first series of Black Mirror.

I partly agree while automation will replace some job, some other job will come up due to the structural change. It happened in the past, happening now and will happen in future. The inportant thing is as human being, how we continue to innovate and add value.