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This is why I'm not really worried about automation meaning the end of work. The fact that we have automation is what enables people to work on these sorts of problems, rather than being out in the fields picking bugs off of their crops and hoping the rains come.

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Depends if the gains from increased productivity are redistributed to the newly unemployed.

It might seem far fetched right at the moment but some thinkers and economists are already seeing a guaranteed basic income for EU countries during the next decades which in time should extend to the rest of the 1st world countries.

I know it looks a bit crazy now, but so did free universal healthcare 40 years ago if you think about it.

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