I think Krugman is underestimating the breadth and depth mass automation will have.  Predicting the future based on the past doesn't apply when you have something unprecedented.  A few isolated sectors aren't going to be impacted," entire industries will be.  There is no historical precedent for the potential ramifications of <a href=""http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23AI"">#AI</a> and <a href=""http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23Automation"">#Automation</a> replacing human labor in multiple industries all within the same basic time frame.  He is correct that in the past", new jobs have been created but he refuses to acknowledge that the issue with automation, robots and ai is that the new jobs will be automated too.,(reply>), Robot go beep boop and me no job,(reply>), Well said👍🏻,(reply>), @The Word Exactly. It's the 1930's trying to happen all over again, and for many of the same reasons—though finding different outlets this time around (internet as opposed to radio &amp; newsreel, etc).<br><br>But where would the US have been in the 1930's &amp; '40's without FDR's New Deal?<br><br>And where, in light of society transforming info tech, tf is our New Deal?<br><br>IMO, Bernie lost because he let them paint him as Castro instead of FDR, but he is very much a creature of the 20th Century (e.g., what happens to labor bargaining power when workers are no longer exploited but simply replaced?). Whereas Andrew Yang was the only candidate in the race with the vision to propose a New Deal for the 21st Century.<br><br>"Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes." ~Bertolt Brecht,(reply>), @gentleman tramp True,  the rise of extremism is evident already throughout the world and one of my fears is that rather than our best and brightest moving us forward, we are taken backwards  into some sort of dark age where rational discourse is conquered by irrational violence.,(reply>), Not to mention the extent to which the last industrial revolution, the shift from farm to factory, urbanization, rapid transit, economic depression, and mechanized world war (WWI) left people feeling as if life as they knew it had been turned upside down and inside out, and thereby open to the utopian promises of political extremism that led to the rise of Hitler &amp; Stalin.