This notion that technology is responsible for inequality and unemployment both now and in the future has been making the rounds lately, but it has got to stop. So much about this is just flat out wrong, but just as bad is that it helps the real villains shift the blame. Technological progress has been making low-productivity jobs obsolete and replacing them with high-productivity ones at least since the Industrial Revolution. In theory that's a good thing since productivity growth is the source of societal wealth that is supposed to raise living standards. The reality sometimes falls short of the theory, but only because wealthy elites try to capture the gains for themselves. Stop falling for the misdirection about "the robots taking our jobs."