[ThrustVectoring]

They're arguably right to freak out. It takes a certain kind of life experience to think about, build, and maintain the systems we rely on to provide the necessities of life. It's probably not a great idea to destroy our society's ability to create adults without some kind of replacement path.

As an aside, I'm tentatively in support of basic income. This is one of the two major points that I worry about, along with rent-seeking behavior. The tl;dr of that argument is the mechanization of agriculture has already freed up tons of man-hours of labor, and the end result of that was systematic reaction that made living in a developed country approximately as expensive as poor people can afford if they work as hard as they have been.