When I started college (while in the Navy) in 1976, my initial major was Industrial Engineering. I was fascinated with processes of automation, and the obsession to always improve and make processes more efficient. It was not long before I became aware of the potential of automation and technology to displace human work... and I began to worry for the future of mankind. Our world is built around work, which allows us to have "things" and to have time to enjoy leisure. Work is where most of us direct our sense of purpose, and even our sense of self (we are what we do). The Utopia of Universal Livable Wage will never happen... we are a greedy species, and those who rise to the top of the food chain are usually the greediest among us. I don't see a future without work, and apparently neither does someone as smart as Martin Ford. We are lucky to live in this world of wonders... but I fear for our future heirs... tough times to come.

Individuals are not concerned about the economy at large over their own interests, despite realizing the benefits abstractly. If demand, hence profit is reduced they will cling harder to robots to keep cost down, not hire expensive humans. Let someone else create consumers. A weaker economy will also allow any rival economy to take control. There is no free lunch, so where is the government going to find the rich consumer or wage earner to tax so to give everyone essentially welfare? Taxing 90% to support 10%, or losing 11% of your paycheck is a strain. The Great Depression showed us a 75% - 25% was like. Industrialist have gotten greedy by disconnecting wages and performance, and every time people get greedy there's catastrophe down the line. Automation also reduces skill needed. Why pay a skilled seamstress when you can put someone in a poor country who can't write their name in front of a sewing machine? Automation destroys the educational system because higher education becomes worthless, not to mention destroying funds to support it.

One of the few that are sounding the alarm. One question I have about UBI is how are people going to purchase homes and what's going to happen to property values since that's a big part of net worth for many.

It's not your job that will be outsourced to a robot....it's you.

The accumulative effect on my brain has resulted in the loss of trust in the human and governments. I am sharing this because it did not happen overnight. It took 12 years to develop this pattern. The truth is I will not trust a billionaire if he tells me to complete this job I will pay you $1000 when completed. I can not trust. I always thought would I be get paid for the two-week period I am working now. I mean think about the fact trust of one person on the second person is getting hurt so badly. All this is the result of the profit-only approach.

When machines replaced unskilled workers it was ok. But when machines start replacing intellectuals Uuuuuuu that's scaryyyyyy...:D:D:D

If max task will do but robot n if people will become jobless that means less demand. Today companies want robots bcoz there is demand but if huge people become jobless that will effect on production

Solution is obvious, tax machines, not humans. Then jobs will be created for humans.