Eight ways robots stole our jobs in 2013

Momentum Machines

LYDIA DEPILLIS|The Washington Post

The anti-robot contingent in America is somewhat mollified by the promise that additional automation may be the one advance that allows for manufacturing jobs to return from overseas and relieves humans of the most dangerous and unpleasant tasks.

Theoretically, the robotic gospel goes, that talent is then freed up for more fulfilling and productive work. (Hint: The more "creative" and "social" you are, the more likely you are to survive.)

Either way, it's worth looking at the different ways automation began rendering new classes of jobs obsolete this year.

1. The people who mail stuff

2. The people who reheat pre-cooked food

3. The people who sell clothes

5 more ways....

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