> Robots certainly help move us to a post-scarcity world though, don't they? Anything that makes more stuff with fewer input resources (especially in terms of

> Robots certainly help move us to a post-scarcity world though, don't they? Anything that makes more stuff with fewer input resources (especially in terms of human time and effort) moves us closer to a post-scarcity world. Implicit in all of the treatments of a post-scarcity world I've ever seen, though, is the idea that humans will be only doing the jobs that only humans can do, such as acting, painting, programming, advanced mathematics, governing, and so on. Robots certainly help us move towards that.