Millions of people are going to become obsolete in this utopian scenario. We get an apocalyptic world with the filthy rich lording over and eventually culling the herds of the filthy poor to stay safe, pampered, and powerful in thier compounds. Jobless, useless, miserable masses won’t have a place in this glorious new world.
Maybe thousands of call centers will fill the void. Oh that’s right - Alexa will handle all of that. Even those jobs will disappear. What am I missing here?
That that Luddite fantasy has been dreamt up to cover up for the Obama types intentionally bogging down our economy.
There was a massive inflow of technology, for example, displacing hordes of secretaries and clerks, in the 1980s. But under the Reagan revolution that became Morning in America, with “greed” decried by the left as more and more people became wealthy and saw their middle-class standards of living finally rise again.