re: #257 Belafon

The people cheering don’t seem to grasp that most of their jobs are going to be impacted by the same automation. And while I’m actually in favor of automating a bunch of the monotonous tasks (which humans are lousy at dealing with), our version of capitalism is not set up for a lot of out of work people.

We simply are going to have to rethink things if the wealth this automation generates doesn’t produce other jobs for people. Even with lots of automation there should still be plenty of service and intellectual jobs available for people. We just need appropriate legislation to ensure that all the benefits of economic growth doesn’t only go to the investor class. That is one reason I think we will eventually have a universal basic income.