Like have a revolution if the economy gets structured in such a way that they cannot make a living for themselves because over half of the available jobs have been automated?
How will they do "other things" if they aren't able to earn the money to finance those "other things?"
You’re using the same argument that’s always been used and it’s incorrect. God forbid a checkout clerk get replaced with an automated system. What would the clerk do? Consider farming. There was a time when half the population farmed. Now it’s less that 2% because of machines and technology. It’s accurate to say that “half the jobs were lost” to farming machines. But it wasn’t a bad thing. Quite the contrary.
This article comes at the question from the idiotic “income equality” point of view. It’s a joke. Bring on the robots!
LOL! Yeah, all those peasants... what will we (us important people) do with them when we don’t need them for factory production?
This conversation has never gotten on a sensible start. Labor reduction in factories will naturally lead to wonderful new opportunities just as farm mechanization did.
...If the ‘important people’ don’t screw things up too much with their ‘smart’ attempts to interfere.