Robots ARE stealing our jobs... Here's one idea on how to deal with that

In this well researched, well thought out TEDx Talk in Vienna, super smart guy Federico Pistono explains how we need to create a new kind of society to deal with the fact that robots and automation are taking over millions of our jobs, and will eventually take almost all of them.  He sees the answer in what he calls an "open source, DIY, self-sustaining world" with technology doing all the drudgery work. 

Its a bold and bright idea.  But here's why it won't work.  What we call "civilized society" is really a small number of people using fear, intimidation, corruption, and propaganda to control a huge population.  His concept would only work if an elite few could find a way to control everyone else, because that's what civilization is.  

Here's where I do agree with Federico, we need to find new forms of human work until the inevitable collapse of society happens.  And it always does.  Pretty pessimistic, but that's the reality we're facing in an age of exponentially growing technological advances.