answer:This question was really a hot topic when I was young. I’m in my 40’s. Robotics were being implemented in many factories. I went to the Kohler factory last year, they make kitchen and bath fixtures, and it some of the more generic fixtures are made with robots. The robots turn out coating bathtubs in porcelain for instance at an incredibly fast rate compared to doing it by hand. By hand there is risk for the person of being scolded by extremely high temperatures, also the factory in general is extremely noisy, I would imagine all workers lose their hearing to some extent. The car industry, jewelry, fabric, carpets, even systems that track sales and automatically reorder good all in the past 20+ years have gone thriugh extreme changes and have meant less need for human beings to do those jobs. Hell, you can go back to the cotton gin and find smilar concerns. New jobs come up, our technological industry replaced some of the manufacturing jobs. But, people with skills to work in a factory and then eventually find themselves without a job often do struggle. Sometimes there are programs to teach a new skill that is useful in the marketplace. I guess life gets easier with more machines and more robotics. You would think we might have fewer working hours, more time to enjoy life. Less labor intensive jobs that wear on the body. All that is good to some extent, but also has its downside.