The age of the robots is upon us. Do not take my word for it. It was the think tank McKinsey Global Institute that undertook a study only to conclude 800 million jobs globally would be lost to robots by 2030. That many jobs constitute a third of the planet's entire labour force.
How this affects politics is obvious. Political candidates will no longer campaign promising job opportunities through this-or-that policies, but how much of taxpayers' money they will hand out for free. Anti-immigration sentiments, thus,
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