Once Upon A Time

Once Upon A Time
Future Schock and two Third Waves 

-- or is it reverse, never mind --

predicted that automation / robots would put a lot of folk out of work.   At that time, off shoring and environmental degradation stood far off if at all in our consciousness. 

We, the people, failed to address the imponderables.  
We continued to let the Good Times roll.  
Or, later on, we rearranged the deck chairs on the Titanic. 

Or did we fail?   We must ask if we can save all? 
Do too many  indulge themselves in victim hood and take their expectations from that chorus piece from the Stage Musical Li'l Aber:  "When the idle poor become the idle rich...".