Robots taking jobs is not a bad thing. It's a very good thing. It's briefly painful for the person who has to find a new job, but then the product is cheaper and better for everyone else. Forever.
Jobs don't disappear. They just change. The industrial revolution made cheap many products that had previously been expensive or required armies of laborers to produce. And then it made available many more that had previously been unthinkable. A transition to a robot/information economy would have a similar effect; today's burger flipper is tomorrow's burger recipe artisan or perhaps robot maintainer/programmer, and can run a whole store by himself. And the cost and variety of gourmet food drops to about the cost of the ingredients.
I don't know why we even bother to try to explain this to people anymore. Don't you ever get sick of this sensationalist vibe in the Western press wrt computers and robots "taking away people's jobs", and subsequently repeating what you just said, time and time again? We should start taking a new approach to it.
Robots are going to take your jobs away suckers. And WE'RE the ones who are going to make them! Ah huahahahaha.
Jobs don't disappear. They just change. The industrial revolution made cheap many products that had previously been expensive or required armies of laborers to produce. And then it made available many more that had previously been unthinkable. A transition to a robot/information economy would have a similar effect; today's burger flipper is tomorrow's burger recipe artisan or perhaps robot maintainer/programmer, and can run a whole store by himself. And the cost and variety of gourmet food drops to about the cost of the ingredients.