Some good thoughts. I will disagree with one point.

“automation brings jobless productivity gains”

History shows this is not correct. The tractor replaced 90% of all jobs. Today only 2% of people in the US farm. The automated telephone switch laid off half of the nations working women in a few short years.

Despite the Industrial Revolution, the tractor, the automated telephone switch, and all the computer advancements of the last 30 years, we’re still at full employment today. History shows automation actually creates jobs in the long run.

History shows that we simply are very good at predicting the jobs that will be replaced, but we are very poor at seeing the jobs that will be created by new technologies and new efficiencies.

Travis Kalanick stated that the self driving car will change the world as much as the assembly line. When the assembly line was created, it was very easy to see that the assembly line would lay off thousands and thousands of craftsmen when it was created. It wasn’t so easy to see all of the products that would be created that would lead to job growth so important that manufacturing jobs would be a highlight of debate in the presidential election 100 years later.

More here:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/01/automation-paradox/424437/