Robots Are Coming for Our Jobs. Thank Goodness.

Traditional mining was a terrible job, involving pickaxes and clambering through tunnels and working at uncomfortable angles whilst breathing in noxious fumes. But one of the most unpleasant parts of the job was simpler: dying. That has changed drastically. According to a paper on the subject, “coal mine fatality rates… have dropped almost a thousandfold since their peak in 1908.” Let’s say that again: “almost a thousandfold.”