To Survive We Will All Become Socialists

I challenge you to reject socialism.  There is a buzz among intellectuals about the obsolescence of workers, both blue collar and white collar, the buzz stemming from the recent publication of books such as “Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future” and “Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day”.  With the greatly accelerating growth of automation, robotics, computers, software, unpaid self-service, etc., there is a decreased need for workers, but that is how most of us make our living to then become consumers.  What are we going to do when we get to a point where humans' working is almost non-existent? As expressed in “Rise of the Robots,” even intellectual endeavors can be done by software, and eventually better.  Recent sports reports as written by computer software rival that of human journalists.  It’s no longer just the tedious jobs of the assembly line as done by those without a college education that can be done better and more cheaply by technology.  This should make us see that all of our jobs are replaceable by machines.  We make our living because we work.  Without the income work generates for us and provides us with the ability to consume and then makes profits for those who own the means of production, there is no use for workers—we become obsolete—or then even a need for capitalists for that matter.  How can humanity survive this?  It seems to me that there will be only two alternatives.  We can expand democracy into the economy with all of us earning a guaranteed income as once proposed by President Richard Nixon, even though that is that all-terrifying thing called socialism, where we would find these technologies to be our friends in providing all of us with more leisure as they do all the work for all of us, or we can continue as is until there is no more use for any of us, leading to our extermination and the eventual extinction of the whole human race.  Meanwhile, our technologies could live on happily without us.  This is no longer just science fiction fantasy.  This is inevitably what is coming and we will have to make a choice: socialism of extermination.  This is why I am not afraid of Bernie Sanders.  We all need to take a forward view in predicting the coming advancement of our technologies, what that means, and what we need to do to respond.  We need to consider how to advance an economy where we can benefit from our technologies, even if that is called socialism.  Or we need to all die ourselves into extinction.  Is there any other way we can survive?  You tell me.