When the Machines Take Our Jobs, Will We Be Freed?

When the Machines Take Our Jobs, Will We Be Freed?

Automation is a new mass economic problem, one that arguably affected the outcome of the presidential election. Thousands of Americans have already been displaced by a force of much more efficient workers—machines. As the full impact of digital technologies is felt, jobs of all kinds, from real-estate agent to pilot to truck driver, will be upended.