Well that only reinforces OP&#x27;s argument... In this scenario you have a few powerful companies taking the pie away from taxi drivers, from small petrol station owners, from small car mechanics, etc... It is a zero-sum game because these people will have to beg on the streets. In this scenario, would the driverless car have helped improve life for humans? Yes it would improve the life of rich people; it will be very convenient for them to not have to drive... But what about regular humans?<p>An alternative scenario would be to tax driverless car companies and give the money back to the people whose livelihoods were taken.<p>I have no doubt that in a fully-automated world, society will either be socialist or communist. If wealthy people start thinking about inequality and actively work to improve things, then we will have socialism. If they don&#x27;t, it will just spread misery and resentment among the lower class and will likely lead to a more dramatic change in the state of affairs.<p>Oppression leads to extremism. Just look at what happened after world war one when Germany was burried in insurmountable war reparation debt... It created a generation of resentful german extremists - And along came WW2.