> Driven to automate. Why? To what end? If you stop and think who really benefits the most from this endless pursuit to automate, you will see it really isn't y

> Driven to automate. Why? To what end? If you stop and think who really benefits the most from this endless pursuit to automate, you will see it really isn't your common neighbor. So, the alternative is to pick a level of automation that society is comfortable with, and legally enforce that we never go past it? Maybe a jobs program where we take jobs away from robots and give them to humans, like repeatedly hammering sheet metal into certain shapes? We'll need a one-world government to ensure that while we do all this, our neighboring countries don't just invest in robots and undercut us on price. I sympathize with what you're feeling, but basically, there's no way to get to the idyllic world you envision without powerful totalitarian overlords.