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We are living in a post-industrial service economy. Many jobs are not unnecessary, just routine and unglamorous.

I live in Sweden and right now we are automating the service industry as well.

You order fast food from a touch screen, you buy your train tickets from a machine and the supermarket cashier is being replaced with a self-checkout.

Meanwhile I still have about 50+ working hours every week. I pay about 65% of the money I make in tax so the people that were laid off through service automation can receive unemployment benefits.

I think there is room for improvement within this economic system.

However, the good part with buying train tickets from a machine is that the machine always knows your local language (in this case, Swedish, and English, and possibly a variety of other languages). This is not necessarily true with low-paid service workers. I'm pretty happy to buy my Arlanda Express tickets from a machine. You'd never have enough service booths if they had to have people in them.

I work in Sweden to, where do you work 50+ hour weeks and how much money do you make to get 65% tax?

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