[bastawhiz]

How do the weavers, whalers, candlestick makers, lamp lighters, and everyone else made redundant in the last few centuries feel? Why do artists find themselves special? The only reason they have avoided automation this long is because we haven't made machines that can think with any sense of creativity until now.

Many of us will become redundant thanks to automation in the next few decades. That's just how it is.