"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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[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

the short story The Machine Stops from 1909.

Nice reference. Here's the book if anyone wants to read it. It's short and memorable.

https://www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/vetter/Other-stuff/The-Machine-Stops.pdf

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it predicted things really well