> as though there's no new economic sectors to replace those that are being automated away Before, it was always "I'd like to build houses / learn to plumb / b

> as though there's no new economic sectors to replace those that are being automated away Before, it was always "I'd like to build houses / learn to plumb / build widgets in a factory, but I need food, so I'm tilling land". Now its "I'd like to do pretty much anything, but nobody will pay me to do it, because the robots are better at everything I can do". Unless your labor is intellectual, your function in society as a bag of meat with limbs and a bunch of neurons that make you very easy to program instructions into is going the way of the horse in the early 20th century.