[familyop]

"Other things about robots.

1. They don’t earn a paycheck and spend it elsewhere in the economy.

2. They don’t marry and have children and purchase or rent homes, and buy all the usual needs of a family or individual consumer.

The list could be very long, but I wouldn’t get too excited about the wonders of a world where economies have no need for the labor of a large part of the population."

I'm excited about it, because it will help to bring the default process and the regulatory regime to its conclusion. See comment #9...

...and

http://opensourceecology.org/

Imagine all design being open source...or have a look at it. Imagine all production being much more distributed.

[Will88]

You’re living in a fantasy world if you think what you describe is going to result in productive work for an large portion of a nation’s population. There is always a limited number of self-starters and truly innovative people in a given population.