kakareen:

In much of the developed world, America included, there is no true shortage of resources. We have more food than we can eat, there is more housing than people.

And then there is the issue that the robots are coming for our jobs. Every year the robots are more skilled, able to do more things and able to do them better.

Robots will be able to perform nearly every currently existing job in our lifetime, and robots don’t need to be paid wages.

So the whole idea of having to earn access to basic human needs is one that is already beginning to crumble. Thousands of people are unemployed through no fault of their own. The economy is doing very well, that’s not the problem. More robots having been ‘hired’ is the problem.

A future without jobs is coming, and our society is not ready for it.