Don't assume robots will always replace people. We have, after all, seen robot factories replaced by poorly paid humans in China. If low skilled jobs keep bein

Don't assume robots will always replace people. We have, after all, seen robot factories replaced by poorly paid humans in China. If low skilled jobs keep being handed over to robots, eventually we get a lot of people with no valuable skills. These people will be poor and largely unemployed. If you take away welfare, collective bargaining, minimum wage, and a safety net then these people will work for literally crumbs (ocnsider people who live on garbage dumps in India). For many many roles these people will be cheaper than robots. This is, incidentally, the lot of the poor before the welfare state was created, and it's what the Tea Party wants to recreate.