Robots Will Take 52 Million Americans Jobs. Here’s What Will Happen

Rural employment will be first to go

Agriculture and manufacturing are highly concentrated in rural areas. Rural towns with non-diversified businesses and industries will be easier to automate, relatively speaking, than workplaces in urban areas with more diversified kinds of industries. For instance, it will be easier to launch full-scale automation in a single place such as a farm vs. multiple kinds of automation in a densely populated city.