> As a result, products and services will become cheaper. As a result, people will have to work less for a living. I think we've seen this play out before and

> As a result, products and services will become cheaper. As a result, people will have to work less for a living. I think we've seen this play out before and instead of reducing work, our standards of living increase and people keep working about the same amount. See e.g. the post industrial world where homemakers had to scrub clothes, then got machines to do the scrubbing, but subsequently had to clean the clothes more frequently. We might be able to reduce the overall amount of human work only through extremely successful social/political reforms similar to the ones that outlawed child labor and established the 40 hour work week. Assuming the technology will cause it to happen is bound to lead to disappointment.