If we can teach the robots to buy stuff, it might all work out.
Why?
If you want to kill an economy and human advancement, then freeze all work in place today, whenever “today” is, and keep humans doing work they don’t need to be doing.
On which day do we end work place automation and freeze progression, 1840, 1880, 1910, 1940, or 1950, 1980, 2010, upon reading this article in 2015?
The market self corrects for that.