The optimist may reply that the pessimist’s imagination is too weak to envisage the full range of wonderful new job possibilities that automation is opening up. But perhaps the optimist’s imagination is too weak to imagine a different trajectory – toward a world in which people enjoy the fruits of automation as leisure rather than as additional income.
乐观主义者可能会说悲观者的想象力太弱，预见不到自动化所带来的各式各样精彩的全新工作机会。但也有可能乐观者的想象力太弱而无法预见一条完全不同的轨迹——人们正在走向一个享受自动化休闲成果而非额外收入的世界。