Excellent!

The biggest challenge to socioeconomic stability over the next 20 years or so will not be displacement of human labour by technology. It will be the human inability to recognize and accept that displacement for what it is. A disconnect between the exponential advances made in reducing the need for human labour as a cost of production using technology and the human perception that a year of progress today is the same as a year of progress a century ago. It is not.

Our human perception of the pace of change is grounded in prior experience and historical awareness over millennia. Because of this, "current wisdom" regarding solutions to evaporating career paths is impotent, irrelevant and wasteful. In short, we are too slow to recognize that the rug has been pulled out from under us and that the tipping point is not in front of us, it's already well past us. Arguments over incentives, work ethic, self-reliance, retraining, etc. simply don't matter in a world where the need for human labor is decreasing at non-arithmetic rates.

The first step toward real solutions is to stop measuring the value of human effort as only what one can command as a paycheck or portfolio.

Once the machines are building everything, there's no need to pay people. The closer we move toward that eventuality, the more destabilized our economy becomes given our current paradigm.

Our ability to coexist with the technology we've created will depend on how quickly we can accept removal of humans as a line item on a corporate income statement or balance sheet. We must evolve to recognize the inherent worth of all regardless of how or what they contribute to humanity.

If we value everyone, everyone is valuable.