We as a civilisation are evolving from human labour to automated labour, these are the growing pains of that transition. It is reasonable to expect that within

We as a civilisation are evolving from human labour to automated labour, these are the growing pains of that transition. It is reasonable to expect that within a century, human physical labour for reward will be considered such a backward practice. Humans are capable of so much more than completing repetitive physical tasks, why not give such work to machines? Every time we choose to buy a hand-made garment instead of one produced by a machine, because our conscious tells us that people need jobs, not machines, we're only treating the symptoms and not the cause. It's an inevitable process that automation will begin taking jobs, it already has as we already know. It starts at the bottom, working its way towards ever increasingly difficult-to-automate tasks. The only one safe is the programmer, he who works to put himself out of a job. The only question is, what do all the jobless people do? For a good read, I recommend: http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm