&gt; as though there&#x27;s no new economic sectors to replace those that are being automated away<p>Before, it was always &quot;I&#x27;d like to build houses &#x2F; learn to plumb &#x2F; build widgets in a factory, but I need food, so I&#x27;m tilling land&quot;.<p>Now its &quot;I&#x27;d like to do pretty much anything, but nobody will pay me to do it, because the robots are better at everything I can do&quot;.<p>Unless your labor is intellectual, your function in society as a bag of meat with limbs and a bunch of neurons that make you very easy to program instructions into is going the way of the horse in the early 20th century.