The Robots Are Coming and Sweden Is Fine
The title should be &quot;Fine for Now&quot;.<p>Maintaining Sweden’s social safety net also requires that the public continue to pay tax rates approaching 60 percent for their current amount of displacement.<p>If automation starts to displace a huge number of people, and there is no job to transition, the social contract will break.<p>I&#x27;m really hoping we hit a star trek style utopia (especially in terms of energy and food) before we get close to social contract breakage. I fear we won&#x27;t though, we already seeing severe signs of the social contract breaking in the United States.