BobTheJanitor posted:

That's fair, I am mostly thinking from an American perspective on this. Maybe some glorious European socialist states will have a better transition time. At least until the new all-robot U.S. Army finds a reason to come bomb them.

And although I have been presenting a pretty grim outlook, I do think that increasing automation will (eventually) be a good thing. I'm betting at some point we'll all get our heads out of our asses and realize that forcing the rules of a society that needs labor to survive onto a society that has no use for human labor is a dumb thing, and we can all just sit back while the robots do all the heavy lifting. The real question is if we think ahead and adapt our social structures as the changes happen, or if we resist and have to start seeing society break down at the edges before we do something about it.