timtyler comments on The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology is soliciting ideas - Less Wrong
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The following quotation illustrates the context of the discussion:
"once full automation penetrates the job market to a substantial degree, an economy driven by mass-market production must ultimately go into decline. The reason for this is simply that, when we consider the market as a whole, the people who rely on jobs for their income are the same individuals who buy the products produced."
This claim relates to the state of the marketplace - and not to the status of the unemployed humans. My comment about "lubricating the economy very effectively" was not intended to imply anything about human welfare.