And yet, the Terminator director gets real with his comment that technology is more harmful today… and he brings up a very good point.
According to the same article, a human welder earns $25 an hour to do work that a robot can do for the equivalent of $8 and hour.
In a 2016 article in Financial Times, the U.S. lost 5.6 million manufacturing jobs between 2000 and 2010, with 85% of those jobs being chalked up to technological change, and not international trade.
Instead of hunting down an individual — or triggering Judgment Day, which still seems far-fetched (for now) — technology takes away jobs, and our ability to earn salaries.