Can we survive total automation?
Walmart employs 2.3 million people. Of all the companies that can most benefit from automation in an already sleeked down warehouse model, they’re probably the ones most likely to embrace automation to replace workers. If even half the the employees are put out of work, can society use 1 million coders? There’s people with degrees now that cannot find work in their fields. It doesn’t take a large work force to maintain automated systems, is there any thought towards what jobs could fill the gap for people for the field now, and for the jobless we will create?