GLM (global free market) having not read the article ... but the risk of job loss to automation is even more dire in those GLM labor countries. We have already seen jobs migrate from US -> China -> Vietnam -> Sudan. And each step the level of automation increases. Everything that happens in Japan will happen to the rest of the world at some point. Japan is the Canary.

The world has already passed peak job. Our task as programmer has always been to automate everything, including ourselves.

Someone will soon build a totally modular, reconfigurable intelligent factory. An autofac, power and raw materials go in and anything and everything comes out the other side. For large classes of goods, this is an engineering problem, not a science problem.