You sound like Obama bitching about ATMs. The modern American home is filled with things that eliminated jobs in the past yet there are still jobs. We no longer have to pay people to take out chamberpots or haul water to our house. The iceman no longer brings ice because, by God, my fridge makes it for me!
I’m not saying there won’t be pain or job losses. There will be big disruptions but there will eventually be plenty of work for everybody, they will just doing different things.
When robots can fix other robots then what will we do?
but there will eventually be plenty of work for everybody...”
You are right and you do use the key word of “eventually”. One of our current major problems as I see it is that we have a gazillion people, probably mostly somewhat older white males, that have never done anything other than robotish tasks, generally for years, and those are primarily the ones associated with the jobs that are gone. They are ill equipped to learn to do something else, even if there were something else to do.
It just may be a bridge to huge for most to cross.
But the time frame that it might take for all these wonderful jobs to open up for people might be a couple of generations. That is assuming a robot’s capacity for creative intelligence doesn’t also surpass humans during that time.