If machine learning automates away low-skilled tasks, as some predict, it might not make working-class people obsolete, but it could make their existence miserable nonetheless.
Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist and one of the pioneers of the world wide web, once declared:
The spread of computers and the internet will put jobs in two categories. People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.
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