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I think Jeff is more right than wrong in his predictions. In the past doomsday scenarios were spouted about claiming technologies would replace ever more workers. Along came the Luddites to smash the machines but eventually workers found new employment in new and as of yet uninvented areas. So many today claim the same thing will happen and all will be well as humans adapt to their new conditions. And find employment in the evolving work place.
I believe that this time things really are different. As robotics and technologies develop machines that can do ever more tasks better and more efficiently than humans, the only positions left for humans will be to develop better and better machines. And in pure numbers how many people will that employ? Only a small percentage of humans today have the capacity to learn the very difficult high tech skills that will be necessary. Which leads me to the following regarding Tesla’s new Model 3 factory under construction:
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The machine will ultimately be so complex that no humans will be expected to operate it directly, or to participate in the actual building of each Model 3.
"You really can't have people in the production line itself," said Musk. "Otherwise you'll automatically drop to people speed." (He didn’t elaborate on how much faster these machines will be able to work.