Augustine wrote about this in City of God. Not about robots. It was about people not having anything to do, not enemy to worry about, they would start fighting each other.
“start fighting each other”
Let’s see, we support the “inner city youth” and “single mothers” with wealth transfers,
so they have nothing to do, and no incentive to do anything,
and they end up killing each other?
Yep.
People like Cowan and Amity Shales think these 80% will be satisfied by looking at their tablets consuming cheap/free content all day sitting at home.