As automation replaces unskilled workers at $15/hr the obvious question becomes what do you do with all of these unskilled ....persons. There are a certain percentage who are indolent, another percentage who are ineducable (which overlaps with indolent). How do you prevent them from creating more ineducable, and thus indolents and then criminals who seek more ?
With nothing but time on their hands, what do yu do with them?
The problem is even bigger than the “unskilled.” Automation is going to replace an awful lot of skilled professionals, sometimes simply by facilitating the breaking of a complex job into parts that low-skill, low-wage “technicians” can handle until they eventually get automated. Unemployment is starting to look like the future for most of humanity, leading to the question of whether the useless masses will be supported through massive redistribution or simply starved out of existence. Looks grim either way.