As robots take over our menial and less menial jobs, what will we do with the people who have nothing to do? You can bet the controllers are thinking about it.
A second crucial question: What will we do with people who have nothing to do? This has been a hidden problem for a long time, solved to date by child-labor laws, compulsory attendance in high school, the growth of universities as holding tanks, welfare populations, and vast bureaucracies of people who pretend to be employed. Few of these do anything productive, but are supported and kept off the job market by the rest of us. But there are limits to the capacity of Starbuck’s to soak up college graduates. (The economic fate of America may depend on our consumption of overpriced coffee.)
Source: Ready: New Rossum’s Universal Robots: Toward a Most Minimal Wage | Fred On Everything