Instead of stealing jobs, what if A.I. just tells us how to do them better?

The early part of the twentieth century saw a book written by a management consultant and mechanical engineer named Frederick Taylor, titled The Principles of Scientific Management. Workplace inefficiency, Taylor's book argued, was one of the greatest crimes in America; it robbed both workers and employers alike of prosperity levels they deserved to achieve. For example, Taylor noted the "deliberate loafing" the bricklayers' union forced on its workers at the time by limiting them to just 275 bricks per day when working on a city contract, and 375 per day on private work. In the interests of efficiency he believed that every single act performed by a workforce could be modified and modified to make it more efficient, "as though it were a physical law like the Law of Gravity." Others took up Taylor's dream of an efficient, almost mechanised workforce.