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Automation could wipe out 375-800 million jobs globally in the next 13 years, including 16-54 million in the U.S. But don't worry, there's a new job waiting for you:
The McKinsey Global Institute cautions that as many as 375 million workers will need to switch occupational categories by 2030 due to automation.
[...] "The model where people go to school for the first 20 years of life and work for the next 40 or 50 years is broken," Susan Lund, a partner for the McKinsey Global Institute and co-author of the report, told CNN Tech. "We're going to have to think about learning and training throughout the course of your career."
[...] "The dire predictions that robots are taking our jobs are overblown," Lund said. "Yes, work will be automated, [but] there will be enough jobs for everyone in most areas." The authors don't expect automation will displace jobs involving managing people, social interactions or applying expertise. Gardeners, plumbers, child and elder-care workers are among those facing less risk from automation.
Also at Bloomberg.
(Score: 2) by arslan on Thursday November 30 2017, @11:35PM
True, but enough "experts" say it and enough people with money/power believe it and throw money at it, it has a higher chance of happening.
My view is technically it can happen and the scenario being describe is not too unattainable. However there the socia-economic barriers behind whether such a state is desirable. If one subscribe to the tin-foil theory of the special 1% behind the curtain using ultra-consumerism to keep the sheeple busy to feed their consumer addiction and hence docile and subservient to their rights being eroded then this particular future is pretty dangerous unless there's some changes in the socio-economic structure where the jobless sheeple can feed their addiction.