Very poor article. I doubt anyone in Silicon Valley, especially Y-Combinator is postulating that the rest of the world isn't capable of being successful or any

Very poor article. I doubt anyone in Silicon Valley, especially Y-Combinator is postulating that the rest of the world isn't capable of being successful or any other nonsense like that. All that is being observed is that the natural tendency for technology is remove the need for manual labor. This first happened to agriculture, then manufacturing and now the push is to automate services that can be. Over time this naturally leads to people needing to move into work that creates this new technology or create new industries in order to work in. If indeed they need to work. The idea that technology will eventually power our basic needs without human assistance isn't that far from reality, sure we may still be decades away but decades aren't really that long. We need to think about the problem well before then because even small amounts of unemployment (10-15% or greater) causes serious problems given societies current structure. It's not just work that breaks down on this automation horizon though but also money/wealth/capitalism. Whatever you call the current state of affairs. People will still need to live, do something day to day etc but they will no longer need to work just for society to function. So money as an incentive doesn't really need to exist at that point. Ofcourse this is very pie in the sky but even so I don't think people realise this is a very real possibility and may happen sooner than many of us think, not in it's completion but sufficiently to force significant numbers of people out of work and make people consider it as a real future.