Humans need not apply is a video on robots, automation and how they will inevitably take over the workforce. If it’s happening, I hope we get to enjoy the show? Or maybe humans and robots can work together as a team. It’s a tricky subject but this video, while slightly contrversial in some of its exclamations is a succinct review of where we’ve come from, where we’re heading and lazy horses. Brilliant.

We have been through economic revolutions before, but the robot revolution is different. And it’s here. Robots are in the same place where computers were in the 80s and they will get smarter and cheap.

“Horses aren’t unemployed now because they got lazy as a species, they’re unemployable. There’s little work a horse can do that do that pays for its housing and hay.”

This video isn’t about how automation is bad — rather that automation is inevitable. It’s a tool to produce abundance for little effort.