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There are a lot of tasks machines can do today that humans do anyway. Think baristas and bartenders. People pay more for human-made goods too, despite mass-manufacturing being a couple centuries old at this point. Having a human face is a competitive advantage in lots of stuff.

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And this is why we see ever better attempts to mimic human skin, faces, movement, emotions, etc, with robot manufacturers.

And how large is the market for this, compared to the rest of the economy? How will the relative economic leverage of people change as they move from knowledge work to the relational economy?

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