Scott speaks about how “place-based jobs” may have considerable staying power. Such jobs are difficult to routinize and require a human presence. Some examples would be police, fire fighters, nurses, chefs, beauticians, performing artists, building tradespeople, emergency service workers, and military personnel. These may not be totally immune to standardization/automation, but they are certainly resistant to some degree.

I think this is fundamentally correct. There is much work, and many people involved in doing the work, that keeps the basic infrastructure of society held together. But / and they are typically core coherent sets of relatively easy-to-master vocational skills ... deltas and some gammas in Brave New World. The even-more-routine work will be automated, and maybe tended to by a human somewhere somehow .. and then there's the freelance and impermanent world of knowledge, skills, capabilities and motivations, all of which will perforce shift from purpose to purpose, project by project, capability-set by capability-set. Beta-plus and Alpha work. And taken as a whole, things will be very very different. Pleasantville 2.0 .. from black-and-white to techni-colour.