"We should not be haunted by the specter of being automated out of work. We should be excited by that. But the reason we're not excited by it is because we live in a society where if you don't have a job, you are left to die. And that is, at its core, our problem."

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You certainly are not going to be able to stop the tide of automation. It's taking off big time. We can't deny it, we can't stop it, we can't turn it back, we can't even slow it down. The worker at McDonalds who gets replaced by an ordering kiosk has no say in the matter. The only thing he can do is learn a new skill that can't be replaced by a machine.

You are right that income inequality is a sickness in this society and it is bleeding the working class dry. Universal Basic Income, or at least taxing the automation at a higher rate, may be one solution. Taxing the rich is going to come one way or another. Eventually, if you don't, you get to the point of "eat the rich".