The Future of Work: 'Work Ethics,' by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

"So you're telling me we're going to be automated out of existence," Romesh said. "I'm telling you that what you're doing is wrong, wrong, wrong, and if you had any morals you'd shoot yourself." The complaint was made in a bar that was mostly cigarette smoke by this point, and to a circle of friends that, having gathered for their quarterly let's-meet-up-and-catch-up thing, had found each other just as tiresome as before. Outside, the city of Colombo was coming to a crawl of traffic lights and halogen, the shops winking out, one by one, as curfew regulations loomed. Thus the drunken ruminations of Romesh Algama began to seem fundamentally less interesting.