> Automation is already doing a lot of the toiling for us

The big unanswered question in that is who is “us” referring to there?

Who is going to benefit from the toiling of automation? Especially when considering some of the poster children for robotic automation are Amazon and Tesla? The cynic in me doesn’t see much upside to automation for Amazon warehouse workers or Tesla assembly line staff.bit I have no doubt it’ll make Elon and Jeff richer still.

But at what cost? I think that’s the point. You can’t get away from the toil, it will just be replaced by something else, possibly worse.