From whom? Not from me… i welcome it and understand that the incentives are in place to drive this, just like it really always has (like you said: "It is not like technology is standing still here").
> and that eventually most jobs at the low end of the economy will be gone.
Probably true in general, eventually at least.
> (something like a UBI will really be needed.
With our current form of governance (centralized, easily corruptible, lack of provenance/accountability in the decision making chain of bureaucracy, tendency to be opaque from the public) and resource allocation, this is untenable.
> the problem is what will we do with our labor surplus after that happens
And this cannot be a top down thing, if it is, expect heavy resistance when things start to go sideways.
> or society is in deep trouble)
This likely true imo, I think things need to get worse before they get better.
FTFY, I'm personally not interested in "binning" the future into simple extremes, and the odds of it being anything else than what is encompassed by either:
> nationalize the robots, or the capitalists will use the robots eliminate the poor people whose labor they don’t need anymore
are very high imo.