[repelsteeltje]

> An economy that doesn’t need human labor is a political crisis of a kind democratic systems have never faced.

This isn't entirely accurate. I can think of Norway as an example of a small economy that after discovery of large gas and oil repositories managed to responsibly invest and distribute wealth across it's populous.

But I admit it's going to be hard to do the same at world scale and at speed

[elliotec]

Who uses those gas and oil repositories? Who drills it out and refines it? Who invests in it? Who uses this distributed wealth and how?

The point here is that human labor is the economic engine and without it, things like this cease to exist or matter.