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Spoken like someone who's never been inside an assembly line.


I don’t think robots will be replacing a toilet or retrofitting PEX in an old home anytime soon. Though it might be nice for the drywall guys to have robots make the cuts instead of the plumbers.


It depends on the blue collar job, but electrician, plumber, roofer, all seem pretty safe from automation for a while at least.




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