When robots are doing all the work and delivering all the goods, what good will people be? Why should they have any money if they’re not producing anything? Will they just lob around and take everything free that the robots bring them?
Then there will soon be no useful humans around. They will not have learned anything, (why bother going to school) and will not be able to design new robots or fix the old ones.
I have serious concerns about that.
I can see people proposing extreme population control measures to get rid of the “useless eaters” when we reach the point where few people actually contribute to society.
I can also see a “back to the land” movement where people are not expected to contribute much of anything, but they are sent out to small “hobby farms” to more-or-less support themselves — just to keep them out of trouble. But I imagine a percentage of the population would resist any plan that seems like it’s sending people out to the fields to pick cotton.
I just don’t see a good outcome. I think a very large percentage of the population is going to be “useless” within my lifetime — and I am not young. People don’t do well if they have no purpose in life.
“When robots are doing all the work and delivering all the goods, what good will people be?”
But will robots be able to invent Doritos?