We as a civilisation are evolving from human labour to automated labour, these are the growing pains of that transition.<p>It is reasonable to expect that within a century, human physical labour for reward will be considered such a backward practice. Humans are capable of so much more than completing repetitive physical tasks, why not give such work to machines?<p>Every time we choose to buy a hand-made garment instead of one produced by a machine, because our conscious tells us that people need jobs, not machines, we&#x27;re only treating the symptoms and not the cause. It&#x27;s an inevitable process that automation will begin taking jobs, it already has as we already know. It starts at the bottom, working its way towards ever increasingly difficult-to-automate tasks. The only one safe is the programmer, he who works to put himself out of a job.<p>The only question is, what do all the jobless people do?<p>For a good read, I recommend:
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