I am also mildly positive, but also quite worried, for the following reasons. 1: Its easy to make fun of the luddites which fought the mills and against progre

I am also mildly positive, but also quite worried, for the following reasons. 1: Its easy to make fun of the luddites which fought the mills and against progress, but for many of them it was a real fight for their life, and many got thrown out in deep poverty. Society as a whole progressed yes, but many got it significantly worse for the rest of their lives. Maybe their kids, or eventually their kids kids got a better life for it. We must not be so naive that we dont think the same will happen (/ is happening now). 2: Not everyone is cut out to be developers/nurses/teachers/whatever-the-future-job-is. Many are, but not all. How do we take care of these boys(and some girls) which before would go to sea, or work at a farm, or do whatever simple job they could get? Maybe in the end it will all "settle down" in a good way, but we live now, not then. 3: It affects the "power struggle" between labour and capital. Its easier to move machines than people. Robots dont strike. Yes, you need a few expensive engineers, but in a world where soon "everyone" has a MSc they are not *that* hard to replace if they get too demanding. 4: And related to the last, as a society we collectively produce a bunch of stuff, and we have decided that selling our labour is the way to distribute this wealth. Automation produces more stuff, but reduces the value of labour. Will we find a way to handle this?