But you seem to be failing to realize automation was never meant to replace all jobs

It sounds pretty incestuous on a micro level but tell that to car mechanics

Just most jobs

Even Heating and Cooling systems. And Cars.

there are a lot more car mechanics than car manufacturers.

Big time.

There didnt used to be

To produce cars at our current rate without automation would require small armies

And there are a LOT more car manufacturers that people who ever sold or raised horses.

There's just more work.

Saying automation will take away your job is someone who isn't thinking about going to space.

And *How* many Cars are in America?

The three most common jobs in the states are as follows

Retail/food service
Trucking (my profession)
And office clerical work/administration

All of these are replacable

Can you make a truck that will fix itself?

You can make a robot to fix a truck

People were worried about this with the replacement of horses, having cars that move themselves

Most of truck repairs are maintenance

But you can't replace a actual person making these decisions and diagnostics.

And even then there are a finite number of truck mechanics jobs

Yes you can

That's more expensive than just taking a person who knows how to fix up his own truck.

Diagnostics are already largely done by computer

Some things require fine motor skills in tight spaces machines will never achieve in our lifetimes

But that still reduces the number of jobs that exist

Even medical jobs can be replaced

Radiology

But we're still a long way away from self-fixing cars, and self-fixing self-stocking fast food stores.

Medical diagnostics

Etc

Plus how are you going to prevent a human intrusion?

With necessary security measures

What's stopping someone from breaking into a Mcdonalds in 2050 and just looting the borgar

You only need one guy there

Oh so you DO need people to man a store

So you have now 6 jobs as a fast food restraunt vs 60

I can see some of middle management being replaced, they are the fat that lays on top of the muscle

I literally just said automation was meant to replace most not all jobs

Jesus christ

Waitressing, cooking, management