I'm skeptical about the robots leading to mass unemployment thing too, but for some different reasons. It kind of assumes that: 1. There won't be room for peop

I'm skeptical about the robots leading to mass unemployment thing too, but for some different reasons. It kind of assumes that: 1. There won't be room for people to operate freelance or outside of a structured business. Which given its commonality in the web design and marketing industries, seems unlikely. 2. That pretty much every business, without exception will decide to replace human staff with robots. I suspect this is more likely among large corporations than mom and pop groups that actually know their employees and don't see everything in pure statistics terms. 3. That some groups won't deliberately avoid replacing its staff for reputational reasons. There's a market for organic food, a market for free range food, a market for fair trade food and a market for no GM food, so there could just as easily be a market for products made by humans only. 4. That people will always pick the cheapest and technically 'best' option from the largest companies and hence the companies using them will somehow conquer the market. But McDonalds and fast food chains didn't kill the restaurant business. And that's before you get into the issues with the version of basic income posited by this article. The 10,000 dollars example is completely inadequate to live on in a lot of the country (especially the large cities), so there's the question of what to do about the insane house prices and such.