They&#x27;re arguably right to freak out. It takes a certain kind of life experience to think about, build, and maintain the systems we rely on to provide the necessities of life. It&#x27;s probably not a great idea to destroy our society&#x27;s ability to create adults without some kind of replacement path.<p>As an aside, I&#x27;m tentatively in support of basic income. This is one of the two major points that I worry about, along with rent-seeking behavior. The tl;dr of that argument is the mechanization of agriculture has already freed up tons of man-hours of labor, and the end result of that was systematic reaction that made living in a developed country approximately as expensive as poor people can afford if they work as hard as they have been.