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Originally Posted by Tristan Lall

This article may be of interest: Better Than Human: Why Robots Will — And Must — Take Our Jobs.

Two hundred years ago, 70 percent of American workers lived on the farm. Today automation has eliminated all but 1 percent of their jobs, replacing them (and their work animals) with machines. But the displaced workers did not sit idle. Instead, automation created hundreds of millions of jobs in entirely new fields. Those who once farmed were now manning the legions of factories that churned out farm equipment, cars, and other industrial products.

Notice how the manual labor that was made obsolete was replaced by a new form of manual labor.

What new form of manual labor will replace the displaced factory worker?