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The Future Is Dead: Machines Will Steal Your Jobs
The World Economic Forum says that automation will destroy 85 million jobs between now and 2025.
4 min readDec 9, 2021
Technology will steal your job.
At least if you are a,
- Waiter: a robot will do the job
- Goods driver: a remote control system will do that job
- Supermarket cashier: a self-service machine will do that job.
- Journalist: artificial intelligence will do that job
- Financial analyst: artificial intelligence will do that job
- Telemarketer: It won’t be necessary. Algorithms will sell instead of people.
- Inventory manager: An autonomous computerized stock control system will do that job.
- [Insert your job here]
The World Economic Forum said the rise of machines and automation would eliminate 85 million jobs by 2025. But at the same time, they reassure you that 97 million new jobs will be created.
This should not reassure anyone.
Do you know why?
Because in the hypothetical case that you would find a new profession to dedicate yourself to, you would have to start all…