I agree with letting machines take over, as I've said in threads in the past (or aliens). Humans are stupid. We are not overall good. We are overall bad. Throughout all of human history, groups have been oppressed and exterminated. In the same generation, the Jews went from being wiped out by a genocidal madmen to trying to wipe out another group because they didn't like them. Our politicians are overwhelmingly corrupt and always have been. The most prosperous times in any nation's history have always been the most unified and conformist, while the least have always been the least unified and conformist, but have also been the most hellish for anyone outside the conforming group. The fact of the matter is, humans are not fit to rule. We have emotions. We have greed. We have faith. We have racism. We have sexism. We have homophobia. We have a million other biases. If we were governed by a machine council whose prime directive is "All people are equal. All should be happy, so long as their happiness does not cause undue suffering to others", we'd live in an amazing land. We'd have a true utopia. One world machine government. If someone is insanely rich, some is taken to take care of others. It's not that they can't be rich, but they can't be too rich. The middle class, the poor and the rich would be closer together. The richest people would be millionaires, not billionaires. The poorest would still make tens of thousands of dollars. Sports players would be paid less than teachers. Jobs would pay what they deserve, not what is arbitrarily decided. A job that helps people would always pay better than a job that does not. Psychologists and doctors would be better paid than actors. Creators would still be well paid, but not better than people who save lives. EMTs would get a bigger check than even the most skilled painters. And the "minimum wage" jobs that exist now would also get better payment, because without them, our world would halt. I'd love to see the poor band together and everyone quit places like Walmart and McDonalds at once, and everyone refuse to work there until they got paid fair wages, but it will never happen.