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>I'm still skeptical.

I'm less sure. Not so long ago self-driving cars were considered an impossible feat and DARPA self driving cars kept ramming into fence posts...

>a lot of future work will be what we would call today "managerial" type of work

And what of the 80% of the population that has no experience (ability?) to manage complex systems?

It probably won't be an issue soon, but it seems inevitable that a decent chunk of the population is unemployable.

And yet we still have odd sections of the population like the Amish who somehow have not died of starvation.

I think people are smarter than most pundits believe, and will either adapt and learn new skills or opt to live simpler lives.

Great idea, let's start an underclass that is forced to live of the land to keep them occupied while the smart guys reap the benefits of automation.

> forced to live of the land

Oh, no, living off the land! How could anyone ever do that?!

Yeah, things were way better when you die if your land can not produce!