Why we need to protect our income from robot automation

Robots conjure images of some distant future – a crisp, white-walled existence. Except that time is now. Last month, one leading futurologist predicted that the global robot population, already more than 57 million, will outnumber humans by 2048, and that's a conservative estimate. Automation is already ingrained in everything from warehouse management to selling financial products. Workers are worried that they are going to find themselves replaced in the jobs market; employer services provider ADP recently surveyed 1,300 working adults and found that a third believe their job will be automated within the next 10 years.