Comment Re:Menial Jobs (Score 1) 187
It's already happened in America. Most manufacturing jobs have either become automated or outsourced. Most people work in the service industry. Same thing will happen in China.
I work at a facility with a large number of CNC machines making high tech stainless parts. Usually someone has to reverse engineer the old part. Someone has to draw parts in solidworks. Someone has to figure out what size the raw material has to be cut to, before it goes into the CNC. Someone has to load material into the CNC and know how to position it and run the machine. Someone has to order raw material. Someone has to be out trying to find customers. Someone has to make the raw materials at a vendor. Someone has to drive the trucks that deliver raw materials and take away finished goods. The actual cutting of metal might be automated but there are plenty of related jobs which are not.