Automation and greed

"New, value-add, less-monotonous jobs will be created!" Um. Will they, though?

Written a couple of times about automation -- here's one -- and a little bit about re-training programs as well, which sadly don't work as well as we think. Because automation is a big, complicated topic that people tend to bury their heads in the sand about, I won't go too deep here. Rather, let's start with a little story.

In late 2019, I was pretty br…