[justin]

I guess my point was that I'd rather be the guy making the software that directs people around running errands then one of the guys running errands. To that end, I needed to have software engineering and product skills (otherwise I wouldn't have had the opportunity to even be in the position to start this company).

To the grandfather's point, I might be naive but when we automate away large numbers of people's jobs of course we will have to figure out some sort of wealth redistribution to give those people spending power (we do this right now in social welfare). However, my bet is that if you are one of the people doing the automating you'll be a lot better off than one of the people on welfare, because we've never in the history of humankind had perfect wealth redistribution.