John Hagel, author of The Power of Pull and other books, says Brynjolfsson and McAfee miss the reason why these jobs are so vulnerable to technology in the first place.

As Hagel notes, Brynjolfsson and McAfee indeed touched on this point in their book.

Although not unlike Holden Caulfield's lonesome voice in J.D. Salinger's "the Catcher in the Rye", Mr Hou's narrative is a more brutal depiction of the spiritual vacuum of Taiwanese youth.