CMV: No one actually wants to have jobs created. The less jobs there are the better.

On the other hand suppose that people were focused on automating things and trying to remove as many jobs as possible by building machines and computer code to do the grunt work. If you are going to do something you should do it well and efficiently and with style, the antithesis of this being the piles of garbage plastic toys that are produced for things like fast food kids meals. I cannot see how the "automate, do things well, take your time" scenario has anything that makes itself worse than the scenario I described in the previous paragraph.

There's no reason to believe that as work gets automated, that the wealth created from that would be distributed widely. Most likely, it would get concentrated at the top. I assume you're in favor of something like a UBI, which could work and hopefully gets tested. It's more likely that you'd not just automate yourself out of a job but also out of a paycheck. I still favor automation, and in some cases it can create more jobs(!), but so long as we've got an economy that works the way we do, the more jobs the better as it drives up wages.

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