Most of those who will be most threatened are not white-collar. The lower skilled will be pushed into what one writer called "The useless class", people whose labour is of zero value since machines can do it better and cheaper. That includes truck and taxi drivers, messengers, bus drivers, heavy equipment operators, landscapers, and most restaurant and retail clerks. When you go into a Tim Hortons or McDonalds in a decade or two there won't be any employees greeting you. You'll push a button and get what you want out of a sliding door. Most likely it will be robots inside making it too. Well, at least we won't have to worry about the bitter kid with acne spitting in our burgers. There's no reason places like liquor stores couldn't operate in the same way.
I think there is an art to landscaping that cannot be reproduced by AI. Same with any kind of husbandry.
People do crave and need connection with others. It may be true that robots could do all of the things people currently do, but it may be equally true that most people will gravitate to those shops that have real people in them over those that do not.
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