The Paradox Of Robots Taking All Our Jobs

Technology is hard to predict especially beyond the short-term, and so it is difficult to argue one way or another whether robots will "take all of our jobs", as they say. However, I think there is a bit of a paradox buried in the idea that the jobless future will happen: if robots in the future are so great that they will replace most human jobs, then they will also be good at teaching humans how to complement robots. Humans have in the past been displaced by machines in many jobs, and over time we focus on learning skills and picking careers take the new technological landscape into consideration. This means learning how best to complement machines. For example, farmers learned to drive the tractors that replaced their manual labor in the field.