The Beginning of the End of Work - The American Interest

I generally expect better from the American Interest than this article. The fact of the matter is we've heard this argument re-emerge every few decades and it's always been wrong. Our modern fear that robots/AI/automation will steal all the jobs fits a classic script. Nearly 500 years ago, Queen Elizabeth I cited the same fear when she denied an English inventor named William Lee a patent for an automated knitting contraption. Did you know that Keynes predicted that automation would result in a 15 hours/week work week back in the 1930s?