Out of the millions or billions of "rich people" who have robots, you don't think even a single one of them will turn their robots toward building robots for the poor, especially if they are doing so badly?

Because there is such a thing as reputation, and concealed carry. Also, I didn't say get rid of governments, I said get them out of the markets. The only possible purpose of a government is to reduce aggression (ie murder, assault, theft, and their derivatives like rape and fraud).

You are thinking of police there. I've yet to see "some guy" harassing homeless people or people living in cars. Only police. That is America's PRESENT and will be worse in the future if we don't allow the tide to come back in and lift all the boats.

Severely underrated comment.

"Your entire argument is predicated on the existence of land that is free to use by others."

No it isn't. It's predicated on the fact that the government prevents people from starting small businesses. Why do you idiots think the only two possible systems are "Nazi boots on your face at all times" and "OMG ANARCHY"? Did the Nazis crush your head a little more than average?

"If everything is privately owned and they have nothing to offer but labor, which is devalued or valueless in our hypothetical robot-run world, where do they get this money?"

Where do people get money from now? Surely everyone can afford to spend $2.50 for 24 water bottles and sell them for 25 or 50 cents each? If you can't afford that, go to a food pantry.

"If he's starting with nothing,"

Why do you make retarded assumptions? Fuck, he can go sell some plasma and feed himself while making a little stand out of a discarded cardboard box. Just sell sealed, prepackaged stuff that you can buy in minor bulk.

If you want to discuss things, you would do well not to strawman people and go full retard with the reductio ad absurdum.

"Being poor means having zero money at all times, always now and forever."

No, I think you are.

Religion exists, therefore God exists? I think an AI would see through that particular logical fallacy pretty easily.

"Why plant crops when we can just eat our seed corn?"

Anonymous idiot, you are a genius!

You can't get $3 together to buy some bottled water to resell? This isn't hard.

Also note that your argument is the equivalent of saying "well, if the first rung on the ladder isn't on the literal absolute floor, we should let the government raise it up so high you need a college degree to flip burgers."

It doesn't take long for them to get enough money to build a hot dog stand. You wouldn't just be buying it from "some bum". The point is that if you go and try to sell something, the police show up and murder you to death for not getting a permit which costs a huge amount of money, creating a barrier to entry. How can you claim to help the poor by sawing off ever higher rungs on the ladder to success?

Sorry, I didn't realize that there was literally only one thing that a person could do on their own to make money. Yes, you are right, let's therefore allow the government to prevent people from opening their businesses because there might be too much competition or something.

You work one of the few jobs that needs to be done by people, earning multiple millions in current purchasing power a year, and retire within a few years to live off of the interest. As a society gets richer, they work less, not by working shorter hours, but by retiring or "retiring" early. I, for one, wouldn't mind having a chain of robo-restaurants that I spend a few hours a week looking over while they rake in the bux.

Actually, they would be free to sit in a sunny park selling food to passerbys, and thereby make money for themselves. In our current system, any attempts to do this without first paying off the state are met with extreme violence.

Who creates corporations? If corporations didn't exist, how could they do all these evil things?

People don't realize that literally all evils in the marketplace are due to initiation of aggression, and in government we have an agency that claims that it has the right and moral obligation to initiate aggression at any time and in any place. Is it really a surprise that they are at the root of the problems we have in the marketplace?