It has the potential to be good for humanity. All the most dangerous/degrading jobs accomplished by robots. Allow people shorter work days and allow people to d

It has the potential to be good for humanity. All the most dangerous/degrading jobs accomplished by robots. Allow people shorter work days and allow people to do "less essential" jobs. More artists, more psychotherapists, more people building affordable housing, more nannies and helpers, people working on just improving life for everyone else out there. But then, unrestrained capitalism isn't compatible with this. The way it's been going in America for the past 40 years, productivity has gone up but salaries have gone down relative to inflation and work hours have stayed the same or gone up. Many people need 2-3 minimum wage jobs just to feed the kids and pay the rent, no free time. The rich, the corporations, are trying to milk the people for all that they're worth, to try and maintain the elite at absolutely insane levels of wealth. The predictable outcome, in the next few decades, is that we'll get worse jobs, higher rents, smaller apartments, more cost increases on food and electricity, longer work hours. The middle class will keep getting squeezed until things reach some kind of breaking point. The rich will have to provide the rest of us with enough distraction and a minimum level of comfort required to prevent famine, disease, civil war, and revolution from happening. We could have some kind of utopia, we have the technology, but the wealthiest capitalist are too near-sighted, it seems, to understand that it would be in everyone's best interest to make sure that everyone is comfortable and safe. Rampant poverty, hunger and crime aren't going to make their lives better. Being some rich elite living in a world filled with miserable, diseased, violent and uneducated masses doesn't sound all that fun.