I am perhaps misreading, but your tone sounds unnecessarily callous.<p>I think you are also assuming that there will always be sufficient numbers of jobs to keep sufficient numbers of the citizenry employed - or, if you prefer, <i>able</i> to be responsible for their own future.   There is ample evidence to suggest that we need to be preparing for a society where this is not feasible.<p><pre><code>  &gt; The spontaneous order of the free market is always going
  &gt; to be more effective than the top down order of some
  &gt; government mandate  ...
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Not necessarily, but it&#x27;s kind of missing the point, and implies those are our only two options (so, no choice at all).<p>The &#x27;free market&#x27; is about to break, which is the point that Yanis (and many others) has made.   That it&#x27;s about to break and we don&#x27;t know what will happen, and worse, that we&#x27;re seemingly not preparing for the transition to some other political &#x2F; economic &#x2F; social structure, is the alarming bit.