> There's a nasty new world order coming where a vast majority of jobs will be gone. There will be super wealthy 'robot owners' and peasant/slaves
This will maybe be the case in the beginning but if you have to deal with an unemployment rate of 20-40% inside a country under heavy arms as America you have to find solutions quickly as modern society tend to fix problems when they occur we will have a bumpy ride into our new economy model that has to come.
And with the automation that is coming like delivery / fully autonomous fabrics / A.I etc. we can provide the basic needs to everyone food / electricity / water / housing at no cost.
>we can provide the basic needs to everyone food / electricity / water / housing at no cost.
what evidence do you have of this? those resources are not free (unless you consider fusion a solved problem, and thus have near-free energy).
More likely scenario is that the vast majority of people who are too uneducated, or is not from a wealthy background will suffer, whilst those with the means will live way above (literally, in huge skyscrapers/floating cities, as well as figuratively). There will still be slums, and the conditions of those places will be as you imagine.
> (unless you consider fusion a solved problem, and thus have near-free energy)
I wonder where the idea that "fusion = extremely cheap" comes from. Even if/when we get commercially viable fusion, there's no reason why it should be significantly cheaper than energy from nuclear fission – you'll still need extremely complicated, high-precision, high-technology machines, generators, cooling towers, buildings, skilled workers, some amount of regulation, and disposal of nuclear waste. Oh, and if your fusion design is a tokamak, it might easily be more expensive than energy from fission reactors.
If you want electrical energy that's some orders of magnitude cheaper, you'll need a break-through in fundamental physics.
I am, also, very much imagining a situation like in the movie "Elysium" being both probable and probably inevitable; the more interesting question is will there be a revolution after?
This will maybe be the case in the beginning but if you have to deal with an unemployment rate of 20-40% inside a country under heavy arms as America you have to find solutions quickly as modern society tend to fix problems when they occur we will have a bumpy ride into our new economy model that has to come.
And with the automation that is coming like delivery / fully autonomous fabrics / A.I etc. we can provide the basic needs to everyone food / electricity / water / housing at no cost.
We have to figure out reward and leisure.