I keep looking for ways that automation's benefits can be shared more democratically, but this essay sheds no light. The concluding paragraph, in my view, resta

I keep looking for ways that automation's benefits can be shared more democratically, but this essay sheds no light. The concluding paragraph, in my view, restates a well-worn plaint: > With automation, the plutocrats get the increased efficiency and returns of new machinery and processes; the rest get stagnant wages, increasingly precarious work, and cultural kipple. This brave new world is at once new and yet the same as it ever was. Accordingly, it remains as true as ever that the project of extending liberty to the many through the transformation of work is only incidentally about changing the tools we use; it remains a struggle to change the relations of production. Maybe it is just a matter of better tax policy.