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Robots will solve wealth inequality, they say
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I think robots can help, but it requires laws, overhauled society, and a twist on things. Instead of companies owning many individual robots, such as shelf stockers, cleanup bots, and food handlers, individual people own a single robot. This robot is loaned out to companies, but service can be retracted by the human owner.
That sort of requirement would make it so that companies can't become automated fiefdoms of an individual will, as they have to get robotic labor from ordinary people.
It requires a planned socialized economy so that the robots are programmed to help the masses, not programmed to help protect the private property and endless enrichment of the capitalist class.