Unemployment in the US is refusing to go down. Where are the jobs going? A recent paper from MIT economist David Autor says the jobs are being taken over by robots.
According to Autour, America's workforce is splitting in two. On one end, you have the high skill, high income jobs like lawyers, accountants and managers. That's increasing, as is the number of low skill jobs like for example security guards.
But jobs in the middle are disappearing. They're either being sent offshore, or replaced by robots. Automated call centers are replacing customer-service agents. Automated checkout stations are replacing grocery-store clerks. And soon we'll have algorithms, not humans, evaluating X-rays at airport security checkpoints and screening user-generated content for sites like Facebook.
In other words, technology is rendering middle class skills obsolete. And that raises a number of questions. An obvious one is about the quality of an education system that produces people with skills that no one needs.
Something needs to be done, it's not going to get better.
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