Most people would feel better about a ROBOT taking their job than losing out to another person

Losing a job is never easy on the mind, but according to a recent study, the psychological severity may depend on exactly who -- or what -- is doing the usurping. According to researchers at the Technical University of Munich in Germany, most people would prefer to lose their own jobs to a robot as opposed to a human. In a study, researchers asked 300 people their preferences on losing professional roles -- both their own or a co-workers -- to either robots or humans. A new study says that workers would rather have their jobs replace by robots over humans to lessen the psychological blow. What they found was that when it comes to somebody else's job, most of them said they would prefer a human to step in -- an overwhelming 62 percent.