We need high speed rail building robots, solar farm building robots, home building robots, healthcare robots. Cheap repairable open robots. Robots that defend us, robots that transport.
More robots than humans. More robot companies diverse in their approaches.
Sure selling your physical labor isn't ideal, but it's better than having no wage at all because there's nothing in your reach that isn't done by robots. We won't have a basic income, Americans can't even get a proper healthcare...
Accountants working with computers are more productive than accountants working with books and a hand-held calculator.
There will be a Pareto curve of distribution.
If we want to reduce the cost of things, we have to reduce the cost of inputs and make the markets transparent (while holding a base level of quality and safety).
This is why TVs and electronics become cheap while healthcare costs balloon out.
Defend from who, and who is us ?
There's a country in Europe currently being invaded in a war of conquest because the invader can for the explicit purpose of subjugating the population and seizing territory and natural resources.
We support that Terror state too, Israel.
Do you not know of all the technology that we enjoy today that had movies and books decrying the dangers?
Like what?
https://macleans.ca/facebook-instant-articles/boo-a-brief-hi...
Btw I think social media is a very dangerous tool being abused and exploited by many.