Stephen Hawking’s final words to the internet: robots aren’t the problem, capitalism is

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The last message Stephen Hawking posted to a public internet forum was an answer to a question in a Reddit AMA, querying how humanity will weather an age of technological unemployment.

Professor Hawking’s answer said that there was no problem with robots
taking jobs – only with the dividends from that robotic efficiency
accruing solely to the capital classes thanks to market dynamics, rather
than being broadly shared through redistributive state intervention.

(See also: Why Socialism? by Albert  Einstein)

https://boingboing.net/2018/03/14/brief-history-of-class-war.html