Is unemployment an inevitable consequence of technological progress?

Question

Technologies reaches new heights all the time, but so does the level of unemployment. I'm not a technophobe, but is it, for example, really necessary to have so many robots replacing humans in *ordinary* places? Like those robots in hospitals that clean the floor or that deliver things. These task could be done by humans, but of course that'll cost more. So the robot gets hired and the humans get fired. And this probably will only get worse in the future. 'Dumb' tasks will be done by machines.

So is the rise in unemployment inevitable, when will it stop and what will the unemployed people do with their time?

Answer 1

maybe but that is not the real reason. this society fuctions on those who have, those who don't. we must have the poor to have the rich and the peron in power wants to stay power and will make laws , place people like them in powerful positions who will look out for their intrest to keep it that way

Answer 2

no its too many hispanics taking the low wage jobs and leaving the rest of us under-educated people of caucasion decent standing in line at the unemployment office