The article sucks but... (Score 1)

Yeah, I agree the article sucks, but it does hint at an interesting issue. There are notions in there about what happens when so much is automated that only those who can program machines or be artistic are useful econimically. This may be something that we encounter, much more than we do now, in around fifty to a hundred years. We build machines that can harvest crops, make meals, clean, and build other machines, and then what is left for the majority of people who are doing these manual labor jobs now? Mass wellfare?