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> like all us humans are destined to spend our time doing

Automation has been here for quite a long time now, if it took people out of the work pool for them to become entertainer we'd know about it.

It's always the same issue in fact, replacing workers by machines is good, but if your goal is still to have a "full employment" society you have to make them work somewhere else. It's not even a new concept but we seem to rediscover it every now and then apparently

> Automation, the most advanced sector of modern industry as well as the model which perfectly sums up its practice, drives the commodity world toward the following contradiction: the technical equipment which objectively eliminates labor must at the same time preserve labor as a commodity and as the only source of the commodity. If the social labor (time) engaged by the society is not to diminish because of automation (or any other less extreme form of increasing the productivity of labor), then new jobs have to be created. Services, the tertiary sector, swell the ranks of the army of distribution and are a eulogy to the current commodities; the additional forces which are mobilized just happen to be suitable for the organization of redundant labor required by the artificial needs for such commodities.

Guy Debord, 1967