alt Hacker NewsI'm tired of these gloomy takes. Everyone only ever focuses on the negatives.
Automation being the end of work would be an unambiguously good thing. Machines can be far more productive than humans ever can, and it would free us up to do whatever we want. We might have to rework the social and economic order a little bit, but we probably needed to do that anyway.
It's less "gloomy" and more of a passionate "Hey, we need to rework the social order anyway, so can we maybe not set everything on fire before we do so?"
Nobody's disagreeing with your latter line, just vehemently screaming that there's no need for willful harm.