>>11018625You sound very much like a socialist.
>You ignore the part that most people are working FOR SOMEONEMany people work for themselves. I think you underestimate just how many self-employed people there are. Nobody is stopping you from doing this, or from starting your own business.
>eventually it´s bound to hit wall, where there will be class of people owning the machines, ever-thinning class of people doing the remaining labour and a class of people without any means of subsistenceI think automation can put people out of work, yes, but it can also create new jobs (e.g. building/maintaining machines and software). We already had this happen with the industrial revolution. Old jobs were destroyed, but new jobs were created. Instead of people stitching clothes by hand, people had to run/maintain the new machines that stitched the clothes instead.
Not to mention the fact that many jobs probably can't be automated. Think about estate agents, property managers. Or even builders, plumbers, electricians. We might get tools that can help with these things but the idea of robots doing these jobs - that's nowhere near to happening, not for many years.
People losing jobs can, and does, create social unrest, of course. So that might well happen in the future if some plumbing robot comes along which can do plumbing instead of plumbers. But that's a VERY long way off - and even if it does happen, it's not much different from manual cotton spinners being put out of business. And like I say, new jobs will appear, maintaining machines and such.
I don't think there will be any "wall", there will just be progress. Some people will lose jobs to automation, yes. And they will get angry. And then maybe the government will help them get new jobs. This is what has happened in recent history when coal mines have closed or steel factories (in western countries) have closed.
