[giant sable]

The rise of the Zero Economic Value (ZEV) Citizen?

[PapaNew]

Beaches more crowded during the week?

[Resolute Conservative]

WALL-E

[BenLurkin]

What happens to society when robots replace workers?

[GeronL]

we already have them in abundance

[dfwgator]

What’s that saying about “Idle hands”?

[Doomonyou]

You get a ton of robot repairmen.

[Busywhiskers]

Kurt Vonnegut covered this question back in 1952.

https://bibliophilica.wordpress.com/2011/01/01/player-piano-by-kurt-vonnegut/

[knarf]

The baby police will be formed and empowered

I mean ... there's nothing ELSE to do, right ?

[Alex Murphy]

[Baynative]

"...at the risk of creating millions of citizens who are simply unable to contribute economically"

This is a potential dream come true for liberals. They will be writing laws that require employers to contribute a "substitute wage" for every robotic task performed in their businesses. That substitute wage will go into a pool separate from social security and be used to subsidize and support people who have no avenues of employment. These people, in return will be regressed to being supported to the tune of about $8 an hour - right where they are now, except they won't have to work.

The result will be a similar battle to what we see no except that instead of demanding a higher wage for working, they will demand higher support. The dems will gain greater control over a bigger class of perpetually poor people.

(I'm not an economist, but I play one on the interweb)

[MrB]

For some folks, “Zero Economic Value” would be a step up.

[pabianice]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R.

[Buckeye McFrog]

They start getting all bent out of shape by the influx of illegal Mexican robots?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

They already have. Think anyone wields a spot welder on a sheet metal line in Detroit or any other auto assembly plant? Amazon’s warehouses use robots to transport goods as well.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Robot hamburger factory makes 360 Gourmet Burgers every hour...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3100817/posts

[Jim Noble]

What happens to society when robots replace workers?

Everything turns to sh*t.

[snowstorm12]

women will date the robots.
We Can Rebuild Him. Better. Stronger. Faster.
Then women will breed out males.
Then women will reproduce via cloning and/or with the robots somehow using artificial DNA. the end.

[Fester Chugabrew]

The question eventually leads to what constitutes a purposeful life, as well as it’s meaning. “I discovered the meaning of life a couple weeks ago, but forgot to write it down.” Guess I’ll have to make do with the biblical texts.

[JoeFromSidney]

As Robert Heinlein once remarked to me, the assembly line made it possible for a moron to make a decent living. They didn't have to think. They just had to repeat the same operation over and over. Robots mean we no longer need the morons on the assembly line.

[RWB Patriot]

The need for skilled workers grows, and because the price of goods and services no longer require as much time and money, they go down in price and thus, people have more time and money to put towards improving their skills.

One of Ayn Rand’s students addressed the idea of automation threatening the livelihood of workers in “The Divine Right of Stagnation”. He essentially proved that the only workers who need to fear automation are the ones too lazy to improve themselves and arrogant enough to believe that the rest of us should be held back because of that laziness.