Our Future: Desperate Poverty?

Amazon is alive with books about life on Planet Earth in the future. For a sampling, go to:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=future%20of%20capitalism

My view of attempts to predict what’s to happen to life and capitalism in this 21^st century is that such efforts are nothing more than guesses, since no one can know the future.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/05/opinion/rushkoff-occupy-wall-street

In my $2.99 eBook, My America: 1931-2031: an Editor’s Take on America’s Most Astonishing 100 Years, my position is that our politicians and think tanks had better start figuring out now what needs to be done to prevent a horrifying future.

I mean a future in which, over time, automation predictably replaces the need for even the cheapest human labor, thus impoverishing the jobless 99% who will predictably and increasingly resent owners and investors— the 1% who are squirreling away vast wealth while visibly enjoying lives much like those of the French and Russian royal families of the 18^th and early 19^th centuries. See:

http://www.amazon.com/My-America-1931-2031-Astonishing-ebook/product-reviews/B00BPD0TUM/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1