What happens when automation starts to produce more physical, intrinsically valuable goods, though?  I&#x27;m thinking of developments that don&#x27;t just eliminate jobs, but also increase personal security.<p>Like, what if farming becomes primarily robotic.  But, in the process of that transformation, each of us ends up with solar-powered, open-source driven backyard robots that tend gardens where the produce did not require pesticides nor chemicals to grow.  Perhaps even raw materials for 3D printing and manufacturing of some household items could be raised as backyard crops.<p>You&#x27;d have less need to buy things that you need to survive, and so less need to work.  Society probably will need to trend more socialistic, but perhaps automation will wind up allowing unemployed people to live more independent and self-sufficient than they can today.