The importance of basic income and universal income is becoming more and more evident. If you can’t believe that automation will take your job, take your skill set, and ruin your family, then I dare you to ask your grandfathers about their jobs and why they think there’s so many less.

Robots will become the next generation of the working class. It is inevitable. Your best chance at finding success in the upcoming decades is to find a skill that makes you who you are. Robots might manufacture art and literature en mass in the future, but we will still need creatives who are willing to put themselves out there.

In my own lifetime I’ve gotten the chance to see the rise of @Kickstarter, @Etsy, and more and more webpages designed for the essential goal of furthering human development in the arts, literature and philosophy. If you are so against the idea that your job will be done by a robot, ask yourself the following questions: “Do I repeat more than three functions per task?” “Do I rely on other humans to do less than five of my job responsibilities?” “How much of my current job is already automated in some way? 30%, 60%, 90%?” “If I wasn’t working here, would I believe that someone would be behind this job?” “Can my job be done without me?”

Consider why the STEM push in education is so high right now. Manufacturing and other industries have large incentives to hire people who can design tools and products that replace those very same people they are hiring. This isn’t a conspiracy, this is fact. Your boss wants a robot. Your industry will soon require that you become a robot. Something that never takes breaks, never asks for time off, never gets tired or sick or needs to see their kids talent show.

We must remember that we have the gift of humanity. Humans were never supposed to be robots. Stay creative. Stay open minded. Study art, literature, philosophy, love, and health. There are very few things that robots can’t do and you have been through hundreds of thousands of generations of adapting and growing and changing to have the chance to take advantage of such things. Let’s find them again.

Take to the teachers around you, and ask them what they see children doing every day. What inspires them, motivates them, encourages them to do and be better people. That’s where we begin to beat the coming automation crisis.