content: There's a pretty big difference here. The goal of the industrial revolution was to augment and increase the efficiency of human labor. The goal of automation is to replace it. It's the difference of going from hand assembly to factory lines compared to going from the horse to automobiles. And yeah, I do think the not-so-long longrun is going to be a new socioeconomic paradigm but it's probably going to be a bumpy road on the way there for countries like ours that's so invested and successful in the current system.