[Will88]

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.

Will lead to a massive central, redistributionist government.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Not to mention far, far too many yutes with nothing to do but cause mayhem.

[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.

[higgmeister]

Will lead to a massive central, redistributionist government.

Or not.

[FreedomNotSafety]

You have it bass ackwards. It’s the huge already massive centralized US government that is causing the otherwise, in the absence of the aforementioned government, unnecessary adoption of robots. You have completely reversed cause and effect.