First of all, there are robots that will vacuum/scrub your floors, clean your pool, and clear you gutter (http://store.irobot.com http://store.irobot.com). It'

First of all, there are robots that will vacuum/scrub your floors, clean your pool, and clear you gutter (http://store.irobot.com http://store.irobot.com). It's the not the Jetsons, but when I think about how complex other household chores can be (from an AI perspective), Thiel's theory makes more sense than yours. Are there even commercial/industrial robots advanced enough to collect, sort, wash, dry, fold and put away my family's laundry? You say the middle class is relatively poor–relative to what? I didn't know there was huge demand for self-driving cars–and it's cheaper to ride the bus–but Google is working on the technology.