As bad as the article makes it sound, it's not like Sam's ignoring the problem entirely. Awareness is half the battle. Funding's the other half. In fact, the

As bad as the article makes it sound, it's not like Sam's ignoring the problem entirely. Awareness is half the battle. Funding's the other half. In fact, there's an explicit request [1] for startups to solve this problem, check it out: We want to fund companies that have the potential to create a million jobs. There are a lot of areas where it makes sense to divide labor between humans and computers-—we are very good at some things computers are terrible at and vice versa—-and some of these require huge amounts of human resources. This is both good for the world and likely a good business strategy—-as existing jobs go away, a company that creates a lot of new jobs should be able to get a lot of talented people. That's putting money where your mouth is. No, automation and SV2SV startups are not the solution, but you can't put the future on hold until someone figures this out. [1] http://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/#million http://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/#million