I asked what is wrong with robots largely taking over production/manufacturing and humans moving into more service-related jobs. — BitconnectCarlos
A nice picture. Except what do Adam and Eve do with the money they earn, apart from pass it back and forth between them? The robots have no use for it, they just produce stuff and pass it around. There's no economy.
They could invest that money, loan it out, start a business with it, save it, gamble it, etc. there's a billion things they could do with that money and it would still be an economy. — BitconnectCarlos
Invest it in or loan it to people starting businesses doing what?
[Robots] need nothing from the humans,
then what are all of the other humans going to trade to the robots (or their owners) to get that food and other necessities?
If robot ownership is widely distributed there’s no problem, so this isn’t an argument against automation, but against concentrated ownership of the automatons.
For 10,000 years or so, our poor old brains have been working and working to make life easier - the wheel to save carrying and dragging stuff, roads to make wheeling easier, cooking to save chewing so much, the blender to save chewing at all. — unenlightened
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