Three loosely connected thoughts. Bloomberg recently posted an opinion piece titled "Too Many Americans Will Never Be Able To Retire" that discussed our aging population and workforce, our having less kids, and funding social safety nets. I felt that the piece was incomplete, as automation and how it will affect our future workforce and economy was a glaring omission. This piece seems to be the flip side of a recent Voice of America article . . . I got a thought in my head recently, don't remember if it came from an article or a headline of a comment on the internet, I do know it's not mine though. Automation isn't a threat to our jobs. The threat to our jobs are employers choosing to not employ us. Its overly blunt and lacks nuance, but there's a little something there.