Re:A good start. (Score 1)

The unfortunate truth about automation is that it forces people to get an education, so they can compete in the job market, and in a "free" society, it should not be required to get an education unless you want one. While I do think everyone should get an education, it's not my place or the place of the government or society to override the individual's right to decide.

That's all fine and good for people to choose not to get an education - but I have no patience for anyone who makes that choice then later comes back and says "But I can't get a job! Society should either give me a job or give me a welfare check." If you're going to give people the responsibility to make that choice themselves (a position with which I agree wholeheartedly), you should also make them responsible for the outcome of that choice.

It would take a generation of societal pain (I.E. lots of homelessness and strife) but our society would be better off for it - people would choose education because they recognized its benefits, not because the government-nanny said so.