[Clotho]

I think what you've done by adding slaves to the mix is reduce the value of human labor relative to other assets, making the holders of resources like land, water, oil, etc stronger.

For instance you still need food and how much food can be grown is limited by the land it can be grown on. However if you want to get a job picking oranges you can now only earn what it would cost to operate a robot to do the same task. So your income drops and farmer is more powerful.

Consider that in the US it was not the norm for women to work outside the home until the '80's and the wealth of families has not increased as a result of most households now having two working adults. As a matter of fact it's gone down.

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That, and no employer will ever pay a wage to a robot. He'll just replace his employees with robots he buys himself. Even at 100k as the OP posited, a typical robot will have paid for itself in 2-3 years. Anything after that is pure profit.

The whole concept of sending a robot to your job and getting it's wage is delusional.

[Clotho]

The trick of course would be to have a roving robot army that pillaged like Attila.