Elon Musk’s Terrifying Prediction About Long-Term Mass Unemployment Could Affect Us All
What does the billionaire propose? How can this crisis be averted?
Billionaire Elon Musk made a terrifying prediction about everlasting mass unemployment that will see thousands of jobs disappear altogether.
And no, the billionaire is not talking about individual job roles at companies all around the world.
He is instead referring to entire professions being wiped out as automation and robots take over.
It’s not just ‘menial jobs’ that are at risk either. Everyone from supermarket cashiers to mortgage advisors and copywriters could be replaced by AI and robots in a matter of years.
This alarming trend has already started
At my local supermarket, checkouts are rarely manned by actual people.
There is usually one cashier on duty, while shoppers are encouraged to use self-checkouts.
There are usually 10 active self-checkouts at a time, with a single person monitoring use and helping shoppers if an error comes up.
The supermarket is, in essence, operating 10–11 checkouts at the same time. Previously, they would need 11 cashiers to…
