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Not impressed. This was a very one-sided video full of charged terms like “worry” and “terrifying” and “what are we going to do about it”.

The ideas expressed in this video may very well be a push for more government control of the economy which has always been and will always be a disaster. This video isn’t balanced and doesn’t show possibilities on the supply side, only dark predictions on the demand side. It is mainly conjecture based on certain one-sided assumptions.

It’s attempt to parallel humans and horses is weak, one sided, and ultimately fails. When horses were replaced by autos, horses became “unemployed” because horses are not economically adaptable. But people are very adaptable and have the intelligence to face an unknown future with imagination and resourcefulness.

There will always be entrepreneurs and trailblazers motivated by the promise of monetary gain though innovation and enterprise. The supply and demand of the free market will determine what jobs humans can do better at lower wages than “bots” as long as government stays out of things like forced minimum wage. The REAL threat to our economic future is not automation or “bots” but government interference.

Fabian Progressive Socialists have said for some time that the world needs fewer humans. Since the late 1800’s they have espoused the idea that a select intellectual “elite” should decide who may live or die. These people believe there are whole groups of people who would be better off dead and THEY are the ones to decide. This video’s dark conjecture forwards these ideas.

But this isn’t the world God created nor intended. He created man to be free and freedom in action is the free market. This film ignores the world that is possible when freedom and the free market is allowed to thrive. Throughout this dark video, they skip over many issues including government forced minimum wage, already a cause of much unemployment.

Maintenance and corollary supply and demand chains created by such automation are completely ignored. The video is conjecture meant to make you afraid and act on those fears. But that is no way to live. Freedom takes bravery and blazing frontiers of technology will open new vistas of opportunity.

More and more of what you hear about the future is conjecture based on fear. But we should live faith-based lives. Faith is substantial evidence of things hoped for that is not yet seen. Fear is also about things not yet seen but it is usually false evidence appearing real.

The future belongs to those of faith and freedom, not slavish fear and dead-end government “solutions.”