[quickthrower2]

Robots are no where near able to do what people can do. You can give a person instructions, train them, they can really understand the task, and have excellent hand-eye coordination to carry out the task. If the task needs extra strength or precision they might used tools, or even delegate some of the work to robots (e.g. CNC machines, 3D Printers, moulds etc.). But overall we still need people.

We don't 'need' cheap labor but the constant strive for more profits means that the company that uses cheap labor will out-compete the ones that don't so that everyone needs to.

Another thing about Robots. Let's say you could buy a robot to clean your house for $250k, or pay a cleaner $10/hour, which would you go for?

The robot might be cheaper for cleaning a large enough house (that would require 40 hours a week for a cleaner) over a number of years. Maybe if the robot cleaned 3 such houses on rotation it would be worth it. But for most people that capital expense is hard to bear.

For many people a robot is too expensive to invest in - they don't have the cash at hand, but labor they can pay per hour and get going right away with little upfront expense.