The type of worker who is being displaced by a scanning robot isn't normally the type of person who is going to be "curing cancer". This is more of a socioecono

The type of worker who is being displaced by a scanning robot isn't normally the type of person who is going to be "curing cancer". This is more of a socioeconomic thing rather than any sort of innate ability to have the training/skillset, or even be in the right place at the right time to have a breakthrough. You say that a human can be freed from having to work when a robot takes their job, but the motivation to work is still there - people need to eat, take care of kids, obligations, etc. Employment is a means to an end. It's almost impossibly hard to describe the different realities that people from different social networks/classes inhabit - I mean, completely alien realities to each other. Deborah Espinoza is worried about robots taking people's ability to earn bread, and the response is "Let them eat cake".