Comment by dathos

My understanding is that you need the optimists to mention it enough times before the world is ready, because it normalizes the concept in ways that not mentioning it ever (or mentioning it only cynically) wouldn't be able to.

While the profits of tech have also flowed upwards, even average to poor people have much improved quality of life from tech.

I’d prefer much less wealth inequality, but it’s not like the only benefit of automation is profit.