Re: The richest man in the world
However, it's always going to be vastly cheaper to pay a carer a decent living wage than putting a horrifically expensive robot into someone's home to look after them, or a horribly cheap one that doesn't work and breaks down and requires constant servicing.
The problem isn't the absence of working humanoid robots to do cheap "unskilled" labour*, it's the lack of value given to humans doing what a robot can't do properly in the first place.
*There is, of course, no such thing as unskilled labour; all labour requires some sort of skill or other. What people mean when they say this is actually "undervalued labour".
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