The market will find a place for these workers, and everyone on average will see a net benefit from getting rid of non-producing jobs. You're being optimistic

The market will find a place for these workers, and everyone on average will see a net benefit from getting rid of non-producing jobs. You're being optimistic and I hope you'll be right. The big question is if we will be able to adapt fast enough, without erasing ourselves in a nuclear war or such. Robots are just a different ballgame than the industrial revolution. The industrial revolution was mostly confined to the production-sector. A modern machine could replace a hundred workers with one. Robots on the other hand could very well erase entire industries, reaching far into the service-sector. What do you do with hundreds of millions of humans who suddenly are not needed for productive work anymore?