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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 9077144" data-attributes="member: 22424">We're currently at the start of another wave of automation, where technology is going to render entire swathes of jobs redundant. Basically, everyone who works in a supermarket, everyone who drives for a living, everyone in fast food, and a great many others are suddenly going to find that those jobs just cease to exist. (They might not go away entirely, but they will be sharply reduced, with dozens of humans replaced by one.) Even creative industries aren't going to be immune, where loads of creative effort will instead turn into a smaller amount of editing work.The upshot is that we as a society need to grapple with a future where that concept that "you have to work to make a living" simply ceases to apply. Or face a future where the 1% are those who happen to own the technology when the music stops, and the rest of us starve.</blockquote>