There's likely going to be some sort of shift in employment and earning paradigms but it's going to drag out over a very long period. Automation isn't ready to replace most of us... and even if it did there wouldn't be any consumers left to buy the goods and services produced by the robots.

I could see a paradigm where many or even most people acquire income by ownership in various automated companies... your success at that might be based on your skill at balancing your stock positions. So we'd all become day-traders, but oriented more towards maximizing current income. That would be better IMO than just putting us all on the dole because then the gov would get to decide where to get the money and who to allocate it to.




I'm sure they want to keep all of those old-world cities and destinations pristine and uncrowded so they can fully enjoy them after arriving in their large-cabin bizjets.

Good luck with that, world population is getting bigger but the world is not