I don’t see how that would be practical in any shape or form with society as it exists today, TBH. You’re suggesting limitations on what normal people can own, based on the stated purpose of the asset. That’s going to be impossible to enforce. Why are we even getting one ‘commercial’ robot assigned to us? The average joe isn’t going to be able to make use of it effectively. Just tax the robots and make sure everybody has UBI.
The commercial robot would be put to use for you, and you would get a percent from it. The purpose is for you to “own” the Robot, specifically so certain people can’t complain about having their taxes/labor stolen.
You can’t get more in order to prevent corruption.
The personal use Robots are just there to do stuff for you, but you can’t use them to get money.
That sounds like an interesting novel or movie, but utterly impractical in the real world.
Entirely too easy to game, or imagine a scenario where several generations after it’s implementation, “high producing” robot jobs are inherited, creating a permanent upper class and a permanent lower class, because the only jobs that EVERYONE has access to are the jobs that will break your robot, and your bank.
The alternative: let the ultra wealthy be the only ones with robots, and watch them literally take everything, and evict us to swamps. The lucky few get to be sex slaves, zoo animals, and torture victims, while the rest get to starve or be hunted down by drones.
I don’t see how that would be practical in any shape or form with society as it exists today, TBH. You’re suggesting limitations on what normal people can own, based on the stated purpose of the asset. That’s going to be impossible to enforce. Why are we even getting one ‘commercial’ robot assigned to us? The average joe isn’t going to be able to make use of it effectively. Just tax the robots and make sure everybody has UBI.
The commercial robot would be put to use for you, and you would get a percent from it. The purpose is for you to “own” the Robot, specifically so certain people can’t complain about having their taxes/labor stolen.
You can’t get more in order to prevent corruption.
The personal use Robots are just there to do stuff for you, but you can’t use them to get money.
That sounds like an interesting novel or movie, but utterly impractical in the real world.
Entirely too easy to game, or imagine a scenario where several generations after it’s implementation, “high producing” robot jobs are inherited, creating a permanent upper class and a permanent lower class, because the only jobs that EVERYONE has access to are the jobs that will break your robot, and your bank.
The alternative: let the ultra wealthy be the only ones with robots, and watch them literally take everything, and evict us to swamps. The lucky few get to be sex slaves, zoo animals, and torture victims, while the rest get to starve or be hunted down by drones.