Jobs lost to robots

The psychological impact of losing jobs through technology.

Jobs lost to robots
The psychological impact of losing jobs through technology.

by the Technical University of Munich

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  • In general people find the idea of robots taking over jobs worse than workers being replaced by other workers.
  • On a personal level however, people are less upset losing their jobs to robots than to other workers.

jobs lost to robots

  • This paradoxical result stems from people's sense of self-worth. We tend to compare oursleves less with robots and therefore robots pose less of a threat to our feeling of self-worth.

Source: tum.de