Robots want half of your jobs

Here's a fun way to spend a long weekend: Contemplating whether you'll be replaced by a robot. Employers could feasibly swap out machines, using existing technology, for humans in 50 percent of today's jobs, says a new McKinsey report. That's not just low-paying work but plenty of white collar employment as well, and that works out to $16 trillion in wages worldwide, and $2.7 trillion in the U.S. The are plenty of caveats to that projection -- the biggest one is that the automation won't happen until 2055, or maybe 2035, or maybe 2075? But it's still the kind of big, headline grabbing number that definitely gets your attention, particularly when the incoming U.S. administration is talking about saving/restoring jobs by pulling them back from the likes of Mexico and China. Trump-watchers, including the New York Times' Maggie Haberman and Axios' Mike Allen, have already taken notice.