Bringing up Lovelace however is quite pedantic and I think you know that very well.
Assembly line worker did not require any new skills. Instead it required a subset af the previous skills people had whether welders, blacksmiths, carpenters, painters etc.
So you haven't really pointed to any new jobs and no fundamentally new type of jobs isn't a cheat.
Furthermore I am not really sure what you are trying to prove. Even if I had missed a few (which I haven't) it wouldn't change the facts.
I'll bite. An astronaut is basically a highly trained horse carriage passenger. Most of spaceship operations are already controlled by machines anyway, and they do it better than humans. Hell, when you see discussions about manned Mars missions, the recurring question is, "why bother with people when machines can already do it better?".
This is getting silly and if this is all you got lets just stop here.
No one is just an astronaut. Everyone who even get to get into space have some sort of profession behind them which is why they are hired to begin with.
Bringing up Lovelace however is quite pedantic and I think you know that very well.
Assembly line worker did not require any new skills. Instead it required a subset af the previous skills people had whether welders, blacksmiths, carpenters, painters etc.
So you haven't really pointed to any new jobs and no fundamentally new type of jobs isn't a cheat.
Furthermore I am not really sure what you are trying to prove. Even if I had missed a few (which I haven't) it wouldn't change the facts.