[apothegm]

A robot that washes your clothes isn’t much use if you can’t afford clothes (let alone the robot) because there’s not enough work left that they can’t do to employ more than a minuscule fraction of us humans and the techno-feudal barons have no interest in distributing let alone redistributing the proceeds.

[dyauspitr]

The US isn’t the only player in the game. In fact, it may not even be the main player in a couple of years. There are people (mainly China) that will do this irrespective of whatever Luddite crap you pull right now. This is happening whether you like it or not. If everyone loses their job, there is going to be something that works itself out. This is not a reason to shit the bed and play dead weight on technological progress.

[fingerlocks]

> If everyone loses their job, there is going to be something that works itself out.

You can’t be serious. The entire crux of your argument rests on this one hand-waving “just trust me bro” dismissive?

[dyauspitr]

It’s not hand waving. It’s pointing out like every paradigm shift in the past, there probably isn’t one answer but society progresses and there will be new ways for people to be supported/productive.

What the alternative? Block progress for a few months, lose your lead in a very important race and someone else develops those technologies and you’re back in the same place again, albeit without owning the “means of new production”.