Aside from freedom of speech, movement, association, and thought, people need three things: energy, data, and means of production. (Housing is a special case)

Aside from freedom of speech, movement, association, and thought, people need three things: energy, data, and means of production. (Housing is a special case) Need a doctor? Are you sure? Or do you need access to the appropriate medical information for the symptoms you have (data), plus production of consumables that will make you better? (production) I know folks want to go immediately to a redistribution of wealth discussion, but I'm not so sure. As everybody wants to point out, with robots, production is becoming generalized. If the tools are becoming more generic, doesn't it make sense to start talking about generic solutions? If I had unlimited energy, unlimited data and data processing capabilities, and a dozen or so robots that were my own? Seems like I'd have pretty much anything else in life I needed. You could even make trades: I'll send a couple of my robots to work on the nearby building construction project in return for X dollars a week. My neighbor is loaning me a few robots for the weekend for a big party. In return I'm loaning him some of mine next weekend for a house remodeling project he has. Will robots replace us? Or will robots make us all some kind of weird version of digital slave owners?