Technological unemployment is a subset of historically recurring problems related to jobs in general and unemployment in particular, which are now of global importance. The typical difficulties of employment have been identified, although not all of them lead to unemployment: jobs don't give workers happiness, most jobs now require skills the education system does not provide (Coates and Morrison 2016), wages are falling and the inequality gap is widening, robots are fast replacing existing jobs, automation will require a different set of skills, etc. (see, for example, Elliott 2017; Ford 2015; Gordon 2013). Accolades, fears, predictions, consequences of technological unemployment have been many and varied: from the unbounded optimism of those who are at the forefront of research, who believe that technology is here to wipe out all ills, to the warnings of economists and social scientists, who predict a massive systemic disruption of the means of production and consumption. Mass media and other publications give similar assessments (see for ex.
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