I agree with your speech @scottsantens.

Automation is coming faster than people know and, as you stated, the ripple effect cannot be determined. There are many technologies which are going to automate out jobs, not only in the industry they are employed, but tangent ones too.

Governments are woefully ill prepared to set a course to navigate through this. Most do not even want to acknowledge what is taking place. Forget the debate of how to solve it, US politicians dont even admit it is happening. Instead the mantra is to "bring the jobs back". Are you effing kidding me? This is not 1985.

I recall watching the autonomous vehicle movement in 2013 or 2014 and the opinion was that we would see a prototype by 2025....in just a few years, that sped up about 8 years....autonomous cars are on the road already.

By the way, the day the autonomous car killed someone, how many people died as a result of human drivers.