This is true, the processes and technology for far greater efficiency in business, manufacturing and politics have been available for a long, long time. But why

This is true, the processes and technology for far greater efficiency in business, manufacturing and politics have been available for a long, long time. But why would a manager in a corporation leverage these things if it means losing an empire? This is the same for so many areas of society, especially politics. It would be easy to build a system which replaced representitive politics, think micro-voting on particular issues by all citizens. This hasn't happened en-masse because politicians are going to have to remove themselves from their jobs first. Robot domination might actually never happen, I mean even if we ever manage to create AGI, there is little reason to believe that it will: * Want to stick around and serve humanity, because why would it? * Care about us at all, ignore humans just do what it likes and forget about us entirely. Edit: I forgot to add that if we built more welcoming, welfare bsaed societies where people are looked after when they're out of a job, then the adoption of automation and "robots" would probably be more accepted and less imposed upon us