Pay Increase

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I don't know why this thread had to derail into politics. My opinion on that matter is to use a system with a transferrable voting system so that votes aren't lost when voting for an obscure party, but just moved to your next favorite party, this video , explains the basics of that system. Basically, the jist of it is, instead of people being afraid to vote green party and picking the lesser of two evils, they can pick their favorite first, then if that guy never makes it anywhere, their vote still goes to the less of two evils.

Anyways, back to automation. Usually I'm a pessimist, I understand where the fear comes from, but that fear has been with us since the beginning of mankind. Yes, there are going to be winners and losers, but that's also part of humanity.
Slowly more and more things will be automated, but as Drefcore has mentioned this frees up time for other things . Even if you don't notice it, there's already a gigantic market opening up as we speak and that market starts with companies like SpaceX. Eventually we will be mining asteroids and having them as pseudo-gas stations(they're usually rich with hydrogen) to fill up rockets. We will colonize planets like Mars. Technology will advance further and we will eventually discover much more and inhabit much of our solar system.
Whilst on earth, new jobs may open up not just in outerspace, but tourism offices for outerspace, perhaps refineries for rare earth metals mined from asteroids(such as platinum).

It is just as possible we will just blow ourselves up with nukes, but we haven't done that yet, and even the most selfish greedy humans don't want to die, so I don't see this happening.
It is also possible that we will inadvertently create highly intellectual AI who are programmed to perfect this world, and it's intelligence see us as the threat to the world.

According to Steven Hawking, we will eventually create "Super" humans, that are more perfected than our current species, and they will eventually create robots in pursuit to keep intellectual life alive in the universe.
If we are the only ones(which I don't believe so), then it would be our prime directive to make sure that intellectual life lives on in this vast emptiness of the universe.

Also, you can't really use healthcare costs in comparison with wage increases. I think at this point everyone knows that legislation forced healthcare companies to change their policies, and in retaliation they jacked up prices and due to the policies, got more subscribers. The idea behind it was great, the execution was awful.

Sadly the best way to get a salary increase nowadays is not loyalty but jumping ship(this does not apply to all fields though).

Good post. Dont forget Blue Origin, though :-)