While the Twitter recommendation is strange, the assertion that we will suddenly have leisure time is demonstrably false. For decades each new technological adv

While the Twitter recommendation is strange, the assertion that we will suddenly have leisure time is demonstrably false. For decades each new technological advance was supposed to make it so we could work half as long because we could get twice as much done. That never happens. The cost of a person was never in how much they could produce but in how much they would demand to do so. If you can do twice as much, then your work product becomes half as valuable. Many of the throw away things we buy everyday are cheap only because their production is so heavily automated. If we still had to cook food in a conventional kitchen instead of warming up precooked food, or use a hammer and hand plane to build furniture, we would be paying far more than we do today. If anything, the people working those jobs are paid comparatively less now than before automation because it used to take skill to work those jobs but now anyone can do it. This is why the main advice of the article - do something that can't be automated and learn how to build the automation - is good advice.