No disagreement here -- wage slavery is just that -- and, in utopia, we would have the robots do everything. But, as the error message goes, "you cannot get to there from here."
It's like seeing an ideal endgame config on a chess board but realizing that there's no combination of moves that will get your knight into position in time.
Delicious pie, very much in the sky, and any attempt to get there looks like it involves mass surprise unemployment, which, as a general rule, tends to destabilize.
Moreover, none of this actually affects or interacts with your original claim, that (more or less) the coming disruption will be similar to previous, smaller disruptions, for values of 'similar' that allow one to compare outcomes.
Again, the better model is habitat loss. ICE and other inventions increased this habitat; AI seems poised to reduce it sharply.
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