Sorry. I thought you were saying that jobs that are currently viable should not be allowed to be automated away. I was wrong. I am in favor of automation (fo

Sorry. I thought you were saying that jobs that are currently viable should not be allowed to be automated away. I was wrong. I am in favor of automation (for the same reasons you are, I think), and automation does harm unskilled workers. Between the present day and the future golden age of robotics that we both desire is a period of time in which some fraction of the population, who have specialized skills that are hard to automate, will work for a living, while another fraction (probably larger than the first) of the population will have nothing to offer in return for money. I don't see any way around the first group subsidizing the existence of the second.