The Guardian's economics editor can see that machine learning systems can eliminate millions of fairly good jobs, forcing millions to join other millions in dead-end poverty.

But he won't look for solutions outside the narrow capitalist system. Trying to train people for better jobs won't do any good if the better jobs are disappearing too.

For the next few decades, we might make a lot more good jobs: construction work to replace our carbon-dependent systems, and medical jobs to care for increasing numbers of old and infirm. Those jobs need to be funded by the public — which implies adding more socialism to our society.

In the long term, to quote a man who spoke at a meeting in Cambridge decades ago, "If the robots make it, we gotta take it!" We must tax the rich and give every person a decent life.