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The cost of robotics is coming down, check out Unitree. A couple of robot arms would cost about the same as a minimum wageworker for 1 year right now. But of course they can go virtually 24/7 so likely 1/3rd the cost

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Not the OP, but I think you might have missed their point, which I think was: if robots take away people's jobs, how will said people afford robots.

Nobody is doing house chores for me or remaining 99% of population...

You sure about the 99%? A lot of middle class people in developing countries have part time house help

It's quite telling that these discussions often end up at conclusion that we are becoming a developing (or 3rd world) country again, and not Star Trek society.

> remaining 99% of population...

Well in developing countries you can hire people to do house chores.

Long term, humans are redundant and their inefficiency is just something that will be factored out of the system.

Weird, I thought the system existed for humans.

The system exists for capitalists, who are technically speaking humans.

At least until the autonomous corporations really take over.

Little did we know we already invented the paperclip maximizers

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