Originally Posted by Onramp

As more and more becomes automated, the owners of the machines, in order to be able to have low enough overheads to compete with one another effectively, will not be able to afford to pay enough people for the majority to be able to survive. I think the reality is that unfortunately, billions of people are going to literally starve to death. Humans aren't responsible enough to be able to fairly share things without money, and not enough people are cunning enough to be making sure they're operating those machines rather than getting replaced by them. It's going to be messy.