Your definition of "time sucking drudgery" is another's way to make a living. Sometimes the factory job that was just automated was the only job in town, and c

Your definition of "time sucking drudgery" is another's way to make a living. Sometimes the factory job that was just automated was the only job in town, and companies aren't going to retrain a 50y/o to program computers. Many people just don't have the resources to learn a new job, or move and find a similar one. Right now we're on a path to automate jobs more quickly than people can reorganize into new careers. In the long term the economic systems will work themselves out, but in the short term there's a huge potential for social and economic unrest.