Comment Re: The problem with the all robotic workforce ide (Score 1) 304
It should also be noted that historical cases did not go very well. They tended to produce a certain number of middle class benefits and significant upper class benefits, but with each leap forward poverty becomes a bigger and bigger problem.
That's utter bullshit; the so-called poor today are better off than the rich were a century ago. There is no absolute poverty in the US today by 19th and early 20th century standards.
We have not had 'industrial revolution' for all that long, so assuming that everything will work out and new jobs will be created is not that safe. The whole point of the argument was that as robots improve they will displace more and more jobs without creating sufficient new ones.
They don't have to "create new jobs", they can simply reduce the number of hours worked by everybody.