I think it’s pretty clear, there is no plan for the masses put out of work by robots. Capitalism is about More Money Now™, not what happens tomorrow. The fact that robots don’t buy products seems irrelevant to those who want to deploy robots because they don’t have to pay robots, and robots can’t complain, or sue the company, or take vacations, or go on strike, etc.

People want ethical slaves. That’s where robots come in. It’s why we want anthropomorphic robots, even when task specific form factors make more sense in most cases. We make the excuse that they need to be anthropomorphic to work within our existing world, which is built for humans, but I don’t think that’s the whole story, or even the main reason.

Although, the filthy rich have no problem at all using human slaves, they do it wherever they can get away with it. We are, once again, allowing the filthy rich too much power. We remind them that the alternative to striking was hanging them, and now they’re telling us that the alternative to slavery will be robots. I suspect they believe we’d be better off as slaves, since at least slaves are fed and housed, as if there were only two options.