The gains in productivity that you get from automation should be pumped into fields where pain points still exist, such as medical research. With the infrastru

The gains in productivity that you get from automation should be pumped into fields where pain points still exist, such as medical research. With the infrastructure that's been built, we have wonderful tools that we can use to learn how to extend human life. Just as we once moved from agriculture to manufacturing we should move again now to massive efforts to advance and practice medicine. In addition to being immoral, socialism (the article proposes several guaranteed-income programs) is not a practical system for getting the results needed to meet the challenges we face. As I learn about cancer biology, I often wish that even more people would jump in and try to figure things out. The field is full of incredibly tough problems, and they are of paramount importance to virtually everyone: you're going to get cancer if you live long enough. You might think it's fantastic that millions of average folks should go and get educations in the sciences, and perhaps it is. But socialism simply would pull people in the exact opposite direction. (See some statistics on Saudi Arabia if you want to see what free money does to a people.)