It's a cliche to counter your argument by noting that technological change has always created more jobs than it has destroyed, and usually in ways that people o

It's a cliche to counter your argument by noting that technological change has always created more jobs than it has destroyed, and usually in ways that people of the era had difficulty imagining, but even if it is different this time, what I fear isn't the loss of millions of jobs, I fear instead that our socioeconomic system won't be able to effectively allocate resources to compensate for those job losses. Here in the first world we live in times of cartoonishly over the top abundance unparalleled by any other era in history, yet still there are people who don't have enough to cover the basics, and even more who in spite of having plenty believe they don't have enough and are hell-bent on hoarding even more. In evolutionary terms we're not wired for managing abundance, we're wired for managing scarcity, and a failure to adapt to these new circumstances could very well mark our downfall. With or without autonomous vehicles.