the problem I have with these is suppose you accept that soon there will be something capable of completely automating all useful tasks you can do. How can you

the problem I have with these is suppose you accept that soon there will be something capable of completely automating all useful tasks you can do. How can you prepare? We can't all learn to be athletes. Going into social roles (nurse, psychologist) may work for some, but we equally can't have an economy where we all pay each other for personal service (I suppose maybe this is debatable, but I expect unemployment would have to be quite large, and the economy would be utterly foreign. The price of acting on this prediction (quitting high paying job to be slightly early on learning to be a nurse) is high, and a prediction of nurses being paid more than today's lawyers seems to be unlikely to happen all that fast), so you'd be working a low paid and physically difficult job for quite some time before your bet paid off, assuming it even does. And is there really much advantage to doing that now instead of later? so you're left with: basically do the same thing you're already doing to make money, save up what you can, and see what happens.