Only possibility of jobs are elite jobs, eg. There will never be enough jobs to replace those lost. All of this creating social chaos, economic insecurity A rapidly changing political environment in which people change parties and there's talk of a third party. Same technology revol in US is affecting every country in world Seeing emergence of two tier society throughout the world Extreme high end and extreme poverty. Homeshopping will create jobs, sure, but the number will pale compared to the loss of jobs in retail stores.
Government is the employer of last resort.
But govt is also automating, shrinking, no longer the employer of last resort. Right now it is destroying the social fabric. It creates the possiblity of freedom from drudgery, from want. Instead we see the employed overworked, while the unemployed are discarded. Need a great political debate about how to share the fruits of this technology.