Oh get off your high horse. Because, by definition, they have the economies that can afford it. You can't just have whatever you wish for; it has to be practical and achievable.
I see it as a progression of technology. We used to see a bright future of automation, robots and leisure. Now we label it unemployment and call it a problem.
I was not witness to that "used to see a bright future" ... I have been worried about the machines replacing us for some time myself.
Not because I'm worried about being bored, but because I'm worried about who controls the finite resources.
>>>> We refer to the question: What sort of creature man’s next successor in the supremacy of the earth is likely to be. We have often heard this debated; but it appears to us that we are ourselves creating our own successors; we are daily adding to the beauty and delicacy of their physical organisation; we are daily giving them greater power and supplying by all sorts of ingenious contrivances that self-regulating, self-acting power which will be to them what intellect has been to the human race. In the course of ages we shall find ourselves the inferior race.
Emotional pseudo-scientific claptrap. You don't like your robot, you get a better one. Who cares about inferior or superior? Different is good enough. One built to serve the other.
What did they do to deserve that?
Why do they have negative population growth ...
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