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<p>For <a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/11/03/141949820/how-technology-is-eliminating-higher-skill-jobs" target="_self">your job</a>:</p>
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<p>[C]omputers still aren&#39;t very good at many menial labor jobs like cleaning bathrooms and other janitorial work; we still need humans for that. So it turns out for many very low-skill jobs, there&#39;s still demand. For high-skill and high-touch jobs like being a good manager at a company, a doctor, or a nurse, we need humans. But many middle-skill, middle class jobs are where we&#39;re seeing the squeeze.</p>
<p>&quot;That&#39;s the irony, right?&quot; [MIT economist David Autor] says. &quot;That basically the things that proved easier to automate are not the lowest-skill activities. It&#39;s easier to have a computer play chess than it is to have a computer wash dishes.&quot;</p>
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