[ben_w]

Seeing "no more jobs" in the "worry" list is surprising. State pensions exist, and the only reason the pension ages are rising is not enough workers to pay for them; having so many robot workers that there is no demand for human labour* would lower the "pension" age down to zero, AKA "UBI".

* which definitely requires human level general AI at fairly low electrical power demand

[koolba]

> having so many robot workers that there is no demand for human labour* would lower the "pension" age down to zero, AKA "UBI"

Why would the super villains operating these armies of human-capable robots bother paying into an upside down pension system?

At the very least they can defend themselves from the torch wield masses with even more robots.

[ben_w]

> Why would the super villains operating these armies of human-capable robots bother paying into an upside down pension system?

Because the governments will, in order of effort needed for compliance, fine them, eminent domain their robots, arrest them, shoot them for resisting arrest, or fire a cruise missile into their secret volcano lair.

Also because if you have a self replicating robot army, you can give every man, woman, and child their own personal O'Neill cylinder and still have 99% of Venus left over, let alone the remainder of the solar system's resources.

[fennecbutt]

Except pension age is already going up around the world.

I had to stop myself from laughing when I heard an old lady in a restaurant complain about not getting enough money from her pension. Sure, I wish she had more money too but at this rate I'll be retiring 15 years older than she was when she retired.

[dtech]

The standard answer is taxes, backed the existing monopoly on use of force by government.

If we've gone so far that governments cannot stand up against private robot armies then that's not an option anymore, but the point is not to get there.