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By coincidence, a friend just posted this elsewhere:
This is the equivalent of "you should learn to do all types of complex math shit in your head because you won't always have a calculator with you". Except you can now whip out your phone.
Imagine trying to convince someone to spend 5 years of their life learning to paint, instead of just waiting for technology to improve. It's a bit like encouraging people to take apprenticeships in chimney sweeping or lessons on how to be a royal jester. Do what makes you happy, sure - but be prepared to do it as a hobby not as a job. Especially if the machines can outbid you.
Some jobs become obsolete as time passes. If artists are next to be this century's town criers, that's okay. We'll all become obsolete sooner or later.
Before the electronic calculators, “computer” was a career. Much like today, the scientists and engineers would write out the equations that need to be solved, but then pass the work to a “computer” to plug in actual numbers. The difference is modern computers are electronic and historic computers were humans who did arithmetic as a career.
Here’s the relevant Wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation)
But those scientists and engineers still knew how to do math, even if they were offloading that work most of the time. The point being, it’s still important to learn how to do math, even if you won’t be the one actually doing it most of the time, and this has been true for hundreds of years, well before electronic calculators and computers.