A review by erinalexdocx
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future by Martin Ford

4.0

Automation changing work as we currently know it, both for the working and middle classes, is laid out as a pretty frightening and inevitable possibility in this book. What I found frustrating was that only in the final chapter did the author acknowledge that automation is poised to severely negatively affect all but a tiny elite only if capitalist economic systems continue. I support the author’s plan for a guaranteed minimum income and more progressive taxation - but I didn’t like how dismissive he was of government intervention into markets and the idea of welfare states.