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Originally Posted by Couch-Potato
5 yrs later they'll all be automated and the poor truckers are out of business however. Not too mention undercutting the oil industry etc... I love it, but I also work in automation and see the future is bleak for the everyday worker.
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I think the future for the average worker will be amazing.
There's no way to avoid a bloody revolution against the rich, and a luddite revolution against their machines without universal basic income.
The worst part of the impending future is the lack of privacy and freedom for the independent spirit. People who crave that will need to go to Mars. Unless of course technology also allows us to reclaim much of the developed land. City densification and improved farming techniques such as vertical and container gardening should help.