Either we fix that, true, or there will be just far less people after a while. In the meantime, starvation may be a common "disease" in 1st world as well, just

Either we fix that, true, or there will be just far less people after a while. In the meantime, starvation may be a common "disease" in 1st world as well, just as it is already in the 3rd world. It's just that automation needs many people. It is to fix the problem of mass production. If there are no consumer masses, there is no need for mass production and thus no need for automation. But maybe the masses are just turned from consumers into products. That is what Google and Facebook already do today. Don't know If I would like to live in such a world. Already now I don't like it to be a Google product. Is that the choice, between starvation in freedom, or being nothing but a product, a second order slave?