Some very thoughtful posts coming from you, ty... If I understand this Q properly, well I am skeptical. I recall in the 1950's reading an article about the coming golden age of mechanization, and we were all going to have more leisure.
Well, even tender age nine I remember at first delight, then a feeling of foreboding...because too often, it seems that our society rewards a skill set of greed. So I am concerned that just like the decades following the fifties, robotic profits will now funnel to those already wealthy as poverty increases and the middle class shrinks.
* * * I would love to be wrong...anyway, maybe you were more interested in the future of robotics, rather than distribution of wealth?
