I think the risks of automation economically are getting handwaved away far too much, lots of #invisiblehand and #learntocode nonsense. Significant swaths of mi

I think the risks of automation economically are getting handwaved away far too much, lots of #invisiblehand and #learntocode nonsense. Significant swaths of middle-class jobs are going to go away, including a lot of jobs that provide a solid middle class income for no more than a high school education (like truck driving). But it's not just those low-education skilled jobs... what about paralegals, for example? And while the handwavers may dismiss one job, or two, or three, there are a lot more vulnerable to automation or obsolescence. I don't think UBI is a long-term solution, but maybe it's a short-term solution. In the long term, I think we need to find other ways of valuing people besides their economic productivity.