Hah! You ain’t seen nothing yet. In an astonishingly short time, customer service, especially phone centers, and janitorial and fast food jobs (Minimum wage)will be filled by intelligent machines. It makes a lot more sense for a business owner to use machines where ever possible instead of minimum wage labor. And frankly, wouldn’t you rather deal with an intelligent machine than the average min wage burger flipper?
My next wife is going to be a robot. I don't mean simply an operating system.;-)
The lead for labor from most of humanity is disappearing. This is a profound change, and I don’t think society is at all prepared.
Like it or not, at least two-thirds of society will soon be sitting at home waiting watching TV, thinking about using their EBT card to buy lobster, and wondering if going out to cause random violence might be a nice way to pass the time.
The remaining third will be working at demanding jobs that cannot (yet) be done by machine. And they will be wondering why society hates them for being successful.
No easy solution to this — and, so far, we’re barely thinking about the solution at all.
Oh great. When fast food workers can’t get $15 an hour because no one needs them they will expect to get that much from welfare.