How to protect humans in a fully automated society

People have been worried about machines taking jobs for a very long time. As early as 1930, John Maynard Keynes was warning about the new scourge of technological unemployment, which he termed as "unemployment due to our discovery of means of economizing the use of labor outrunning the pace at which we can find new uses for labor." In short, automating ourselves out of a paycheck. The fear has only grown more powerful in the software age. In one recent story, a few automation upgrades ended up m...