He talks about technology eliminating (some) jobs at the start, which is true enough, but then there's a strange handwavy bit where people ponying up their info

He talks about technology eliminating (some) jobs at the start, which is true enough, but then there's a strange handwavy bit where people ponying up their information to bigdata providers makes wealth more concentrated and rots social mobility. As long as we keep doing things the way we are, every big computer will hide a crowd of disenfranchised people. In the case of translation, the people are translators, and in the case of surgery, someday they will be surgeons. Eh? The tech that's driving surgeon automation is NOT big data, but robotics. Nothing whatsoever to do with free information, mostly about extremely expensive information, in fact. And then it gets even more strange as he starts pushing micropayments as a remedy for this: Just because things have a cost, that does not mean they can’t be affordable. To demand that things be free is to embrace an eternal place for poverty. The problem is not cost, but poverty. Erm, ok. Let's play this through. Let's say that the self-driving car is built upon the bigdata analysis of lots of publically-gathered location and environment data from phones. Which it isn't really, but play along. The self-driving car puts cabbies and truckers out of business and puts them in poverty. Now, with this micropayments scheme, the self-driving car company has to pay the phone users $0.001 each for the use of their data. And this remedies the situation... how? These itsy bitsy micropayments are going to be spread out across everyone with a phone, i.e. everyone. They wouldn't be enough to live on, or probably even buy a sandwich with. Facebook, which seems to me to get much more valuable data from folks than anyone else, has an ARPU of $4. Four bucks a month, per user. Let's be generous, say we can get folks ten times that. What exactly is $40 a month going to fix? Barely covers your broadband bill!