At what point do you say the jobs just aren't coming back?

I've been thinking a *lot* about this over the past year or so, and I've come 'round on UBI.

Brass tacks, the labor market is shrinking, and will continue to shrink, as automation kicks in across the entire market https://twitter.com/FOX40/status/1311530574885064704

I'm not even talking 1st tier support going to India, I'm talking about 1st tier replaced by AI. Look at the shit Google is doing - they have tech to automate restaurant reservations, and the latest rollout is staying on hold for you.

That 'person' that wants you to reboot your computer at not be real

Manufacturing jobs are being replaced by robots, and as companies reconfigure for robotic assembly there will only be people that maintain the robots

High-end tech like my old job, circuit board design, purely digital layout is increasingly done by algorithms. It's not optimal but an engineer can just plug in numbers (analog is still different)

Hell, the make line - those minimum wage McDonald's jobs - are going to be replaced by automation soon. With Covid, chain restaurants are experimenting with robot servers

But back to the fore, low to medium skill jobs are going away, & we need to prepare for that. It's been coming a long time & the thing that's holding it back is companies being able to push costs back on their employees. That's going to break, and soon. Covid is just pausing this