>>124352172Then the society also needs to fundamentally change, and the rich elite should quit the delusion thinking poor people are being poor because they don't do enough work. The amount of manpower needed is finite, would all blue collar jobs become automated, that doesn't mean everyone would find a job in a white collar section. It means a lot of people are simply out of work completely. So the society would need to change somehow that they can still consume and keep the cogs turning. For if they're just left to fend off for themselves, they will not buy the products produced by robots, the whole market would collapse because the consumerbase would no longer exist.
Used to be before in-house electricity, washing machines and vacuums, each household had at least one maid working for them. The bigger the house and richer the owners, more house servants they had. Because basic house chores took more time back then. You had to fetch water from a well, you had to light up the stove with firewood (somebody needed to go and buy or chop that firewood), someone needed to bake that bread and beer, someone needed to dust those floors, someone needed to take dirty clothes to the river and wash them by hand. Now a single person can do all of that within 2 hours with minimal effort thanks to household appliances that have pretty much replaced housemaids everywhere else except richest mansions. And even then you dont need an army of maids and manservants to clean huge areas efficiently, 1-2 cleaner ladies are enough.
