Sorry but we are nowhere close to programs writing programs on an industrial scale. It will be decades before humans are mostly removed from programming on a large scale. Even then, you will still need humans for creative thinking. We have not yet come up with AI. When we reach that point supplies of most everything will outstrip demand so much so that most necessities in life will cost nothing. At that point you are talking about an entirely different type of economy. I would like to talk about current affairs though if you don't mind.

I am against government handouts in general. If anything I am more against corporate handouts than those for individuals. Businesses have to be allowed to fail when they make poor decisions or they will keep making them because they know they will be bailed out. People are not too dissimilar, but companies impact far more people than an individual can, and I have compassion for people in need and none for a poorly run company. I just happened to respond to your one comment which happened to be about handouts to individuals.

I never said that blue collar jobs would grow and no others would, I just said that there would be significant growth in those jobs compared to white collar jobs simply due to the fact that very few people are training to become skilled workers because everyone wants to be white collar. Supply and demand will drive up the value of blue collar work compared to white collar jobs.

We actually have not drawn a line. No one has tried to slow the increasing cost of entitlements at all. Our solution is to print more money, vote to raise our debt ceiling, and then stick our heads back in the sand hoping that our benevolent and wise government will take care of us.

I am glad to see we agree that people are brainwashed to consume. That is a major issue whether you believe it or not. It should concern you that the majority of families in this country have less than $1000 in savings. This is one of the reasons so many people feel they have to have a government safety net to protect them because they have chosen not to provide one for themselves.

You seem to be focused on the outliers of the economic bell curve while I am talking about the majority. Yes there are people who cannot afford to save money because they don't make enough to do so. Their issues are different than the majority of Americans. I don't mind them getting some assistance to help them get on their feet, but the kinds of "assistance" our government gives does not encourage people to try to better themselves. It encourages them to do the opposite. If they start to make more money and get ahead, then they lose their assistance before they can afford to lose it. That makes no sense. There are better solutions that will encourage people to try to get ahead rather than keep them impoverished.

Where we really differ though is you believe government is the solution to all our problems while I believe that people are better suited to solve their problems.

Oh and nice try with the ad hominem attacks. Try to focus on attacking my arguments rather than me.