Automation replaced 17,000 people’s jobs at one of the world’s largest professional services and tech firms Accenture over the last 18 months, but no one actually lost their job – “We are fortunate enough to reskill and reposition them.”

both can be expected to happen simultaneously and in equal proportions. > This likely explains why over the last 200 years of increasing automation, we have never had rapid bursts of automation associated with an unemployment crisis. Depends on who you consider being employed. Horses surely have less work to do now than they did before the industrial revolution. Similarly, humans will have less work to do if everything a human can do could be done by something else. In order for humans to compete with it, we’ll have to modify yourselves to stay competitive.

The question becomes what is […]

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