Okay, then they will clean and maintain the robots. Those were just simple examples.
The government doesn't create wealth or prosperity and even if robots replaced the majority of jobs, the money to run and maintain the robots would have to come from somewhere.
Billionaires like Musk love the idea of basic income because it puts him in charge (he will never have to get basic income) and makes slaves out of the rest of us (if your only income comes from the government, they get to make most of your life decisions for you).
It's really just communism re-packaged when you think about it. A system where there are really only a couple of people with all of the power (IE: Musk) and they get to set all of the rules for the rest of us.
Many people from the communism days of Soviet Russia loved their life because they didn't actually have to worry about where their next dollar came from and jobs were assigned automatically.
The government doesn't create wealth or prosperity and even if robots replaced the majority of jobs, the money to run and maintain the robots would have to come from somewhere.
Billionaires like Musk love the idea of basic income because it puts him in charge (he will never have to get basic income) and makes slaves out of the rest of us (if your only income comes from the government, they get to make most of your life decisions for you).
It's really just communism re-packaged when you think about it. A system where there are really only a couple of people with all of the power (IE: Musk) and they get to set all of the rules for the rest of us.
Many people from the communism days of Soviet Russia loved their life because they didn't actually have to worry about where their next dollar came from and jobs were assigned automatically.