&gt; automation has not eliminated jobs and that wealth transfers cause people to refuse to work.<p>One of those statements is meaningless and the other is flat-out incorrect. 
Since you seem to have no education in economics aside from some libertarian drivel you picked up elsewhere (going only by your resume), I&#x27;ll explain:<p>1. Automation has obviously not eliminated all jobs. It has eliminated some jobs, which have been partially or fully replaced by new, higher-skill jobs. There is an ongoing debate on how many of eliminated jobs get replaced and whether they get replaced in full at all. This isn&#x27;t even an economic argument.<p>2. Welfare is a transfer of income, not wealth. Wealth is by and large capital, means of production and generally does not get transferred as it would be a violation of property rights - a literal theft of assets. Welfare occurs in the short term, whereas if you gave poor people stocks that were taken from investors - that would be a transfer of wealth.<p>&gt; I&#x27;m only arguing about facts in this piece.<p>But your argument has nothing to do with automation. The arguments you presented give a case for some regulations being harmful to creating additional low-wage jobs.