Why should my hard earned money go to those less fortunate?

[Pat Mustard]

You can in England. I've known a few people who lived like this.
They've had no job ever but had money to have 4 children who have 4 laptops none of the children have laptops they all smoke weed.
I mean that's just one family I knew as an example but I know other people who can easily live off government assistance.

Well, you can't in the US, hence our enormous problem with homelessness (hello, San Francisco) and food insecurity (1 in 7 children don't have enough to eat, and do not have a steady food source).

They've the same problems in the UK. Between 3 and 5 million people in the country depend on food banks to survive. There's a huge homeless crisis when large stretches of London lie empty.

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I think automation will have an impact in many other lines of work, but fields in which human contact and interaction is essential, you're not going to see it. Those are the fields that people just may be fighting over in the future, especially if most other lines of work are taken over by robots. I could be wrong, as I can't see the future, but since the conversation has turned in that direction and the OP has failed to address or acknowledge my post earlier, I thought I'd give my 0.02 cents worth the whole robot thing.

You think? They're automating stuff like banks and shops and callcentres at the moment. Anywhere a machine is, in the long run, more efficient to buy than a waged human the machine will win out. Once they mass produce machines that can do the fiddly stuff hairdressers and other cosmetology professionals will become, at best, a niche luxury for the rich.

The only kind of jobs that currently are safe are those that need imaginative thought, and once we solve the Turing problems even those will be at risk.