I think he was saying that automating all the things is good, but we need to rethink the economic system that we currently have. Imagine the logical extreme of our current trajectory: a world in which robots&#x2F;computers do everything that humans currently do. 100% automation, 0% employment.<p>This <i>should</i> be a good thing, giving humans unprecedented leisure time and producing a huge cultural boom. The problem is that in the current economic system 0% employment means the world would be impoverished, except for the few that owned the robot&#x2F;computer production systems.