Not all robots take your job, some become your co-worker

This op-ed originally appeared in Real Clear Markets on October 30, 2019. Robots have been coming for and successfully eliminating jobs for a long time: ask the iceman, elevator operator, or travel agent (if you can still find one). But what happens when the robots come for your job, succeed, and your job remains? Sounds strange but consider the conflicting reality of bank tellers and the robot designed to replace them: the Automated Teller Machine (ATM). The first ATM appeared in America in 1969.