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To do what?

Chores and other stuff we don’t/can’t do. This has been the dream for decades now, so many decade+ old encyclopedias with “future tech” chapters show robots caring for people, sometimes as caregivers (for old people, or blind etc), sometimes as entertainers.

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filcuk@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Except regular people will struggle to afford food out whilst these will be cleaning rich people’s yachts.

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- real_squids@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Wealth inequality isn’t going away anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean you can condemn the entire field of humanoid robots as useless/unreachable for the 99%. There’s probably going to be a point when a suzuki swift (geo metro for americans) equivalent of a robot will come along.
  
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  - technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    Wealth inequality isn’t going away anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean you can condemn the entire field of humanoid robots as useless/unreachable for the 99%.
    
    That’s exactly what it means. Even a geo metro is a garbage machine destroying the planet that’s completely unaffordable for most of humanity.
    
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