Not too long ago I watched a Youtube interview with Elon Musk discussing the future of work in light of the new AI's expected ability to do a lot of jobs now done by fairly skilled people. His point was that jobs in the future are going to become scarcer and that we need to start changing the way we think about the necessity of everyone working.
I just did a search for this and I found a short version of the talk I watched. Here's a link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJgtRBkFnfw
He suggests we start thinking about a universal basic income for everyone.
Here's an interview with then President Obama on a similar topic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgL32wtgeXQ
I wonder how much this kind of thinking went into what Amazon is doing.
Barry