If technology is meant to be an extension of ourselves,

@Elessar Or being left behind. The issue of automation isn’t that it’s evil, it efficient, but that’s little cancellation to those that lose their jobs to machines.

@Straylight Well, that's not a new concept itself; from the industrial revolution to these days there has been a continuous replacements of old mansions with new ones.

The biggest treat to our jobs come from the fact that employers can easily find cheap labor (especially abroad), than from machines imo. We're still pretty far from being able to program machines in a way that they're so advanced, independent and general-purpose to ever replace a human in most positions.

@Elessar I have a friend in the oil field and part of his job is to tell people their job is gone. Not just that they’re fired, but the job they probably spent years training and getting certified in no longer exists. That’s part of what made me think of this.

@Straylight Oh, I'm not denying that such situations exist. Just saying that they've existed also before, they're always been a consequence of technological advancement, even preceding the industrial revolution itself. While some jobs are lost, new jobs are created, until they'll also be replaced by something else over time.

The certifications will probably go to waste, I suppose, but certainly not the skills. There are hopefully different positions, and if not, even different industries altogether where at least a subset of those skills would be useful/requested.