If such a robot reliably makes you .... $10M a year in 2016 dollars and costs $1M to make, that's a trivial finance arrangement - 90 days or less maybe. I don'

If such a robot reliably makes you .... $10M a year in 2016 dollars and costs $1M to make, that's a trivial finance arrangement - 90 days or less maybe. I don't know what would or could prevent that assuming the ratio and rough magnitude between those two figures. At that point, you'd hope that the pursuit of status would presumably move elsewhere. Engineering incentives is beyond difficult. Many, many of the things people complain about most in the modern economy is due to some crufty legacy incentive-engineering left over from years past.