I hear a lot of technologists with this opinion, basically that the way it's worked out for the last 150 years will continue work out. But I think there is def

I hear a lot of technologists with this opinion, basically that the way it's worked out for the last 150 years will continue work out. But I think there is definitely cause for concern, not because of x or y class of jobs going away, but two factors: 1) the concentration of wealth increasing at the same time that increased taxation on the rich is political anathema, even though they pay only a fraction of the tax rate that they paid the last time income disparities were this wide a centry ago. 2) an unabated hunger for exponential growth in the consumption of natural resources with no serious economic thought given to the long-term viability of assumed infinite growth and what externalities we are ignoring to our own peril. It's very easy to sit here as a privileged class of software elites who have no realistic risk of becoming unemployable—or even just as an the average human in a first world country who has a relatively low risk of global economies collapsing during our lifetime—and just hand-wave away these concerns. But personally I think we need to start thinking harder about sustainability and egalitarianism in society if we ever want to achieve the fabled post-scarcity economy, because at the moment we seem to be in a greed-driven economy which will never recognize itself driving off a cliff until it's too late.