content: I think there's a difference between sober skepticism and something bordering on denial. At this point we can look at vehicular automation, just by itself, as something that will be imminently completely upsetting our jobs system. This isn't pie in the sky futurism. You can buy cars that are completely capable of driving themselves. And in Tesla the crash rate among vehicles when in auto-driving mode is already a fraction of that when humans are driving the vehicles. Uber is already testing completely automated taxis. They still have humans in the car or this wouldn't be called a test, but this isn't like "Oh maybe 5, 10, 20 years down the line this might happen." The technology has already happened. What we're in now is the refinement phase before it's commercially released. And again that's just one form of automation among countless others, but it's one that will single handedly completely wreck our jobs system. Your comment would be like if we already had numerous stations on the moon with dozens of people at each testing them out to ensure their safety and stability, and you were claiming that colonies on the moon were a distant future fantasy.