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Can you formulate a rationale of your own on how we will deal with surplus workers in a high tech world?

Assume they'll magicly become creatively employed in some other productive occupation. (lacking skills and capital, it ain't gonna happen.)
Assume they'll peacefully starve to death and disappear on their own. (Ain't gonna happen, it goes against human nature.)
Use the military to slaughter 'em when they become thieves and revolutionaries. (Ya gotta do it when the threat is real and imminent, but it is immoral as a long-term plan. Scratch that idea.)
Placate the masses with welfare handouts to sustain their lives. (Nah, that's socialism/communism. That doesn't work.)
Shorten the work week so available work is spread around more evenly. (Hmmmm... sounds fine in theory for the most prosperous nations... but it's still oppressive of those in the more overpopulated, poverty stricken nations who will still pull down the average of the more developed ones. Can't stop people from working longer hours if that's what they want/need to do.)

Oh what to do? What to do?

I still prefer utilization of revenue tariffs to act as a trade buffer between different nations. So what if it's less "labor efficient" as defined by the transnational corporations? Those globo-bureaucracies aren't elected representatives of We the People anyway.

Serving as a buffer between nations, tariffs would encourage each nation to become self-sufficient at utilizing their own natural resources, including labor. So what if this results in "excess global capacity"??? Redundant, excess capacity is actually good, and keeps people productive within the expectations of their own national economies, permitting a more stable transition to whatever the future may hold.

Good reply willie.. I knew you could do it..

But still, -- what to do? What to do?

Once we utilize revenue tariffs to act as a trade buffer between different nations, thus saving our own manufacturing base, - we still have massive numbers of unemployable 'we the people'..

In essence, except for tarrifs, you are agreeing with Williams by saying:

"Redundant, excess capacity is actually good, and keeps people productive within the expectations of their own national economies, permitting a more stable transition to whatever the future may hold."