First there's a slippery slope there. You presume that all menial tasks will be taken over by AI or robots. You also assume that some or all people who presentl

First there's a slippery slope there. You presume that all menial tasks will be taken over by AI or robots. You also assume that some or all people who presently perform these menial tasks are not smart enough or capable of performing tasks beyond the menial ones. The problem I have with that is that economic and political forces often keep people, intelligent people, in menial jobs for no better reason than circumstance. There are plenty of smart, capable people with real passions for music or mathematics who are stuck filling forms in an office because they need to a job to pay the rent and bills. There are many ways they could have ended up at that job. But if they were given the opportunity to be free from that circumstance, what do you think they would do? If the economic output of the region is the same regardless, does it matter if they do nothing? I have a belief that people will find more productive things to do that they previously never could. > I, personally, think that we have to accept that there'll be a world where not everybody will be able to have a job. And we should prepare for it. That's what I meant when I suggested we would need to shift our economic models away from the ideals set out by Max Weber. Criticisms about the formation of capitalism aside it traded serfdom for indentured servitude. It allowed us to transform our world and build great things... but I think it's time is nearing an end. But yet the greatest opponents to change are those with the most to lose. And they have quite a lot of money and power. update grammar.