It's kind of obvious at this point that most jobs can be automated with the current, publicly available, scuffed AI.

If you've worked in an office building, in a relatively big company, it's kind of evident that most people don't do much, if anything.

Probably a third could take a week off and it wouldn't impact the business in any way.

The question is what are these people going to do once their companies have to lay them off to be competitive with fully automated companies.

The obvious answer is that they'll want to be saved by Big Daddy Government with Universal Basic Income.

Governments are very threatened when the people are free and independent.

Of course in a UBI society, the people are not free or independent, but they still have way too much time on their hands.

If you're the government, you'll essentially want to turn the people into Zombies.

Kind of makes you wonder if all these Zombie TV shows were a big predictive programming campaign.

Governments just wouldn't last in a society where the people didn't have to work for the majority of their waking hours, even with UBI.

So they'd need wars, "natural" disasters, pandemics, mass surveilance and very strict control guidelines.

In other words, we'll be going back to full on communism, at that, in a time when governments can control everyone and everything with very advanced technology (Palantir anybody?).

Aldous Huxley was right again: 'Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.'