In time, robots will surely take our jobs—but right now they aren’t clever enough are they? At this very moment, even the smartest robots need a human to change their batteries or plug them in. They’re jumped-up toasters. Overconfident alarm clocks.
In the 2005 movie War of the Worlds (based on a book by Steven Spielberg), we meet some aliens who use giant robots to extract our nutrients—not to mention all the fun.
The film stars Tom Cruise as a below-average Dad who redeems hinself by doing Tom Cruise type stuff.
At one point he makes some hasty peanut butter sandwiches for his so-called kids. They are not impressed. Even a stupid robot could make a peanut butter sandwich, Dad.
But Tom has a leather jacket and the determined attitude of a man pretending to be a dockworker. It's the sane kind of attitude displayed by plucky business school attendees who want to open a cocktail bar, and young lawyers who get in over their heads and end up on the run from the mob.
The robots might come for our jobs, but they’ll have to go through Tom Cruise to get them.
Here’s Barry, working his way up to our level: