/2I'd like to gravitate back to my original point: what is the value of work today if ai has replaced, for example, 20% of all service-sector jobs in America (including white collar)?Seriously. That's a broad assumption that I think many working people support.While we are at or pretty close to the 20% of America's workforce getting replaced by machines that think, what happens to the unemployed? Not everybody can adapt, retool, and do their jobs anew in the guise of working with ai.The problem with really rich folks such as Marc Benioff, Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, and Peter Thiel is that they're assuredly all in the camp that basically believes: "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"Investments in ai are amounting to little more than pump and dump stock schemes. That's quantifying it in dollar amounts. I want to go further...The context for replacing people with ai and robots is messed up by the polarization taking place in America. Most feel that this stems from the "political divide" — or constant disagreements within US society over policy, international trade, and how to run government so that it does not encroach on our personal lives. That's plain to see if you're mature enough to see it.I feel that the next major step is merging intellectual property with license architecture and marrying that to some kind of profit motive that does not include billionaires calling most of the shots.We are probably around thirty years from any of this taking place or really happening. This realization makes me unhappy because while I wish things were better, I do know "how the runnings go." There isn't going to be a Hail Mary pass or some great app or new operating system which saves the heart of I.T. It will take these three things to make the impossible work: blood, tears, and sweat. Many will not want to participate, or much less contribute anything of value in terms of practical, functioning software. The youngest generation getting into I.T. can best be described as the "new wave." Some of them aren't nice.This will take much longer if people like Marc #Andreessen have their way and keep getting bitter ideologues such as Trump elected who feel that infighting and taking all the credit are the order of the day.