His new social contract can be summarized thusly:  Bend over.

A “cushion to try new ideas”?  Really?  You mean when you get fired off off a good paying middle class job because you trained a robot to do your job, a robot owned by say royalty deadbeat Zuckerberg, that you feel great about it because you’ve got a “cushion to try new ideas” like not losing your house.

And just who might pick up the tab for these costs directly attributed to automation?  Directly attributed to the profitable robots owned by Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, Eric Schmidt, Larry Page and Sergey Brin?

Is the proposal that the cost be borne by the corporations that caused the harm?  Or by all the taxpayers to keep the Great Unwashed under control so they don’t burn down Facebook?

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