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But wouldn't there be jobs to make, fix, manage robots ?

Low paid, scarce jobs, even outsourced. Why keep an expensive engineer on call when you can just swap a robot out, ship it to its manufacturer for repairs and just keep production going, no matter what?

Sure , would it not be more of an extension (although agreeably an extreme one) of computers, vending machines, self serve checkouts, self driving cars etc ?

And soon enough, programmers and even CEOs. Given enough time, everyone can be replaced. What will you do then?

Sweep the streets? there's a robot for that.

Clean toilets? Self-cleaning toilets can be built.

Cook food? There's a robot for that.

Look after other people's kids? Other people won't have a job either to be able to pay you.

> Ian: Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.

Jurassic Park

That makes sense - I would imagine a purchase agreement would lock you into product warranties, service contracts, and so on. You might end up in violation of your contract if you send the robots to someone else for maintenance.

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