Comment The problem is... (Score 1) 124
...It's not the Engineers who decide whether or not the people get replaced.
We are within a generation - two at the most - of at least half of the population being made literally redundant. Any job they could possibly do, will be done faster, cheaper and better by robots. Basically, if it's a job involving manual labour, it'll be automated, with the possible exception of high-end positions catering to the luxury demands of the ultra-rich. Many management jobs will also go as collateral damage (don't need to manage robots, after all).
Probably a generation after that advances in AI will have taken over a huge swathe of lower-end "knowledge worker" jobs.
With greedy, psychopathic, neoliberal Governments running most of the civilised world, the future is looking pretty grim for the common man.