You forget about the nature and quality of work. These people in an office adding things manually probably had a job that was safer, more dignified and healthier than, say, an worker in an Amazon fulfillment center.
If we are able to replace white collar work like this, i believe we will 'hollow out the middle': low level manual work will remain, as will highly paid engineering and coding roles and certain other areas, perhaps sales executives or others.
But the opportunities for many people unable or unable to meet the conditions or skills demanded by those roles, however, will be reduced.
If we are able to replace white collar work like this, i believe we will 'hollow out the middle': low level manual work will remain, as will highly paid engineering and coding roles and certain other areas, perhaps sales executives or others.
But the opportunities for many people unable or unable to meet the conditions or skills demanded by those roles, however, will be reduced.