Um. As a programmer I am in the job-destruction business. I think a society with fewer jobs and more automation can be a better society for everyone provided w

Um. As a programmer I am in the job-destruction business. I think a society with fewer jobs and more automation can be a better society for everyone provided we simultaneously shift in the direction of more of a social safety net for the unemployed and hopefully a UBI. But right now a lot of people are very frightened by that job destruction and they're not totally wrong to be. It is causing a lot of short-term suffering, and a lot of people blame us. Let's not start calling the people we unemploy "meatbags", ok?