Silicon Valley’s Unchecked Arrogance
If you&#x27;ve ever spent time working &quot;among the people&quot; - like, in a factory, or running a cash register, or cleaning toilets - you&#x27;d know that most people aren&#x27;t smart enough to &quot;build wealth for themselves.&quot;<p>In fact, most of them (and likely also you) are alive only because modern society is full of rubber bumpers and safety nets. I don&#x27;t mean things like Social Security - I mean things like grocery stores and municipal water.<p>This isn&#x27;t a bad thing, and it doesn&#x27;t mean those people aren&#x27;t good, or not worthy of basic human care and comfort. After the robots take their jobs, we need to give them a guaranteed basic income or they&#x27;ll be dying in the streets.<p>There&#x27;s nothing arrogant about acknowledging that - I think it&#x27;s arrogant to assume that every person is smart enough (like you) to take care of themselves in a shockingly changed economy.