Yes and each decade less and less jobs are created. Now the kind of jobs that are created in the US are primarily either low paid jobs or temporary jobs (which means no healthcare which means much harder to live off) On top of that the cost of living is going up.
So the trend is actually showing us exactly that.
If your claim is that new jobs will be created you need to show those new jobs cause they are needed right now and I don't see what area you are referring to which should be able to take over.
Saying we don't know is not an argument when the trends show the opposite.
>If your claim is that new jobs will be created you need to show those new jobs cause they are needed right now and I don't see what area you are referring to which should be able to take over.
Predicting what the new jobs will is very hard. Someone in 1870 couldn't predict that a large percent of Americans would stop farming and instead manufacture cars, radios, and refrigerators. Those things hadn't been invented yet.
Also, sometimes automation brings cost down and unlocks demand that increases the number of jobs in total. More people worked in auto manufacturing after the factory line was invented than before, despite it drastically reducing the man hours per car.
There may be a period of high unemployment, but the cheap labor will find uses. Well, it always has in the past. Against this time might be different if automation is easy enough to replace nearly all low skill human labor.
Unless you are somehow expecting technology to stop improving and humans to somehow improve exponentially the trend is pretty clear. Machines will be able to do most of the things we do at levels we haven't seen before.
It's not hard to predict new jobs if they are there, they should already be there and you should be able to point to them.
The numbers speak for themselves. As I said the number of new jobs created have actually gone down decade over decade in the US.
The real danger is saying things like "jobs will come" thats not an argument when you can't point to it, then it just become a religious belief in something there is absolutely no evidence for.
Secretary used to be the biggest job in America and now it's virtually gone because of technological progress.
Do you know how many clerks were automated away when the database was created?
Maybe this time is different, but you can't assume it will be.