Summary: Money is life, take steps to ensure that you will have it in the future.

The Red Pill is about looking at objective truths and using that to your advantage. The Cold hard truth is preferable to the comfortable white lie.

That being said there is a curious blind spot that seems to permeate this place regarding the subject of Automation and the idea that the "Free Market" will provide like some Benevolent God and reward your blind devotion.

Robotics and AI combined will create the greatest disruption/catastrophe/opportunity depending on your position and point of view.

Inevitably, some of you will claim I am crying wolf, like the Luddites of old. Except I suggest you read the actual "Boy who cried Wolf" fable.

It ends with the Wolf appearing and fucking up the unprepared townsfolk.

The point of that fable is that "Crying Wolf" desensitizes you to the actual Wold. Which fucking exists.

"Crying Wolf" does not mean that the Wolf is not here, it means that it is not here YET and you are causing a false alarm.

New technologies do not create new jobs. Technology is merely a tool that people use for their own benefit. The only reason someone would employ someone else to do a job is that they have bitten off more then they can chew and require help, and have to pay someone else to help them.

Technology is a work multiplier, it allows an individual to do the work of many. Nothing about this says that Technology must create new jobs. This is not a law of the universe, it is a consequence of people using the technology for their own benefit.

Previous inventions which have disrupted labour markets, the printing press, the loom, harvesters etc, all have been absorbed because they were created to do a specific job.

Automation (which is new) is created to do every job.

Rather then replacing a job, Automation replaces the Worker. All Workers.

I'm going to steal another Redditor's comment about this because it's funny.

This is what 100 million jobs disappearing looks like

This is Boston Dynamics latest prototype for their Atlas robot.

Ask yourself what jobs does this robot create? Chief hockeystick technician? Head of 2x4 manipulation?

This thing could already do my job, and it's just a prototype.

In case you haven't seen Humans need not apply yet, watch it here I'll wait.

Since time began, all Humans have spend their time doing "work" This is required because this keeps society functioning. We are rapidly approaching a situation where society can continue to function, with only a minority of people having to run it.

There are no answers in this thread because I do not have them. This is something that you have to deal with individually while society re-organises.

If a thought instantly pops in your head after reading this thread, you are having an emotional reaction, and whatever thought you have, they are probably wrong.

Lessons Learned: Adapt or die. And if most discussions about this topic are a guide, if you can think slowly and rationally about this, your already heads and shoulders above everybody else.