From even back in 2016 there have been a virtual barrage of reports warning that robots and automation could displace even over 50% of the workforce in the next few decades. Now in 2024 with AI robots, is it still safe to predict jobs will remain as a solution to wealth distribution?

During the almost 300 years of the industrial revolution growth age, new jobs have soon emerged to take the place of those replaced by automation, but although it is repeatedly claimed that this shows how technology creates as may jobs as it makes redundant, this deeper look makes it clear it’s not technology that’s been creating those new jobs, and as with Aesop’s fable of the boy who cried wolf, while we may have lost faith in the profits of job losses, it doesn’t mean those job losses will never arrive.