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 The theory of [[technological unemployment]] assumes:
 *that all labour activities in the economy can, and before long, will have been articulated in such a way that they can be entirely, reliably and cheaply carried out by [[artificial intelligence]];
-*that once they have been automated, those labour activity will nonetheless hold their value;
+*that once they have been so automated, those activities will nonetheless hold their value and become worthless overnight, as has every other artisanal craft made redundant by machinery in human history;
-*that an economy which has been thus automated, and to which the majority of participants no longer contribute, will still function more or less as normal, and
+*that an economy which has been thus automated to saturation, and to which human participants no longer contribute, will still function more or less as normal, and
-*that, in other words, an entire economy not only can be fully determined but has been ''solved'': that our current polity is in some kind of fully [[Taxonomy|taxonomised]], [[Taylorism|Taylorised]] end-of-history state in which no new activities or work categories can emerge, and all that do currently exist can be more effectively carried out by machine.
+*that, in other words, an entire economy not only can be fully determined —  ''solved'' — but has been: that our current polity is in a fully [[Taxonomy|taxonomised]], [[Taylorism|Taylorised]] end-of-history state in which no new activities or work categories are possible, and all that do currently exist can be more effectively carried out by machine — ''they have abolished the patent office'';
 These three assumptions being transparently absurd, this gets the [[Yngwie Malmsteen paradox]] 180° back to front. Increasing automation will create ''more'' [[risk]], not ''less''; will generate ''more'' [[complexity]] not ''less'', and ''more'' potential for catastrophe, not ''less''. We will all be kept busy.