Technological unemployment may not be so bad either, if it's easy enough to buy in to a piece of the action. After all, a fully automated corporation would be funneling the wealth created by all that robotic labor to its shareholders... but who are its shareholders? They could be anyone, they could be everyone. What if everyone is shareholders? Maybe not necessarily of the same corporation, but what if at some point in the future, everyone has a large enough stake in some corporation or other, or mix of corporations, large enough that the returns provide them enough money for a comfortable lifestyle. Should an unexpected disaster wipe someone's investment out, it might even be theoretically feasible to bail them out with just enough capital to get back on their feet. Of course, newly born people would need a seed investment to get them started. But for most people this could be provided by their family, as long as said family is already doing well. Think of it as getting an early inheritance. Rather than everyone being unemployed as we traditionally imagine it, it would be more like everyone is retired, and everyone is a bankster. Except the robots, because we're all exploiting the robots. Starting off it does have a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem. You'd need to get people enough starting money to become self-sustaining, and you'd need to teach them how to use it (because that's their job now). Once bootstrapped though it can easily become a self-sustaining cycle, as each subsequent generation can be educated and bootstrapped by the generation before them. Technically, any sufficiently determined person with a sufficiently large income (from any source) could start the cycle within their own family right now. They would simply have to divert a large share of their income into revenue-generating investments over the course of a couple decades, until they are making so much money that way that they no longer have to work. Then, take a family member and teach them how to do the same thing. Then those two can teach two more, and so on, until the entire family can make enough money to live without working. Of course, "you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink". That plan has no provision at all for people who are unwilling or unable to understand how investment works. After all, theoretically right now anyone who makes more than $30,000 a year after taxes should be able to pull this off within 40 years (and by the end of that 40 years, 80% of their wealth will have already come from their investments, not their salary) by living as if they made $20,000 a year (and assuming they live somewhere cheap enough to get away with it). But nobody is doing this. After all, it's easy to get out a calculator and say "if I lived as if I was on the edge of poverty for 40 years, I could retire a millionaire". Actually keeping your belt that tight for that long is hard. Though maybe, with a bit of education, we could convince people who make say, $60,000 a year to live as if they made $50,000 so that they can retire a millionaire. They get rich, someone else gets that job, everyone wins.