I did say kind of working out, not working out the way it should (for some definition of should I think we mostly agree on). I'm just saying that automation has

I did say kind of working out, not working out the way it should (for some definition of should I think we mostly agree on). I'm just saying that automation has made it possible for homeless guys to have cell phones, when before they couldn't. I'm not even floating a guess as to whether or not he'd be homeless if it not for that automation. That's a much larger and more complicated debate. On the balance, I'm still betting that more automation makes better lives for more people, even if it seems to increase inequality in the short run. I wait patiently for the day when mankind looks at himself in a collective mirror and says, "Know what?, everything's so good now that we don't need all of this inequality." I think this is an essential step in man becoming a semi-eternal space-faring species instead of one that just drives itself to extinction.