While the final conclusion, (the either/orness of the
rich-get-richer vs basic income) doesn't seem to naturally flow
from the rest of the article, nevertheless, I am a fan of what
automation will do because I'm a fan of what automation has
*already* done. To me, it's a progression that's been happening
for a very long time and I'm glad for it. The reason why the
either/orness doesn't hold for me is there is a LOT of variety
between a) increasing income gap and b) basic income But on
principle I agree with basic income. My interest is more the
progression into greater and greater automation as ultimately
being better for societies as a whole, however their economic
systems end up. Naive on my part? Not really. It's just that
economics is far too complicated to reduce to a binary choice
and biased by my general skepticism of Utopian vision. But I
like the progress just the same.
