content: Analysts might be poor with picking a date, but this has always only been a question of when. Here is the simple fact of the matter: unemployment and starvation will bring down this country long before automation takes even another 10% of jobs. No way the power plants stay on with over 20% of the country out for blood. The only direct answer to automation is complete self sustainability. Its pretty impractical for many, but those who can provide for themselves will be the only ones with the luxury of sitting out the unrest that will come. You won't risk your life fighting through a food riot if your kids aren't starving. The obvious and practical answer is this: Tax the faces off of businesses that automate, and funnel that money directly to food rations. Or simply outlaw the implementation of tools that render human labor unnecessary. Its shitty, but better than a literal collapse of first world society.