>Isn't that already the case? Yeah, but it wasn't robots that got us here, it was rather more mundane - union busting, offshoring and outsourcing. Robots are

>Isn't that already the case? Yeah, but it wasn't robots that got us here, it was rather more mundane - union busting, offshoring and outsourcing. Robots are a rather convenient scapegoat though. The financial crisis was simply symptomatic of that (middle class households were forced to swap rising incomes for more and more debt).