Should automation be restricted to a few jobs only?
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Although automation does help drive profits and wealth (along with allowing mass production). There should be some sort of limit that will prevent all jobs from being replaced by the ever-smarted AI within robots we see today. Although some would think such a phenomenon is centuries away, I actually think about the future and try to find a way to prevent humanity from looking like the axiom in Wall-E.
You see, when ALL jobs be replaced by technology it not only creates massive unemployment, welfare costs, inequality, and collapses the government budget, but humans (if not kept busy somehow) would either go insane or get into some real trouble when they have nothing productive to occupy their minds.
However, then there is the problem of having too much government interference. Therefore I think it would be best to leave it to the unions to protect jobs from automation across the nation.