By the same token, people have horses because they are a high-status thing to have. These so-called "horseless carriages" will never really catch on!
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QUESTION: Just how big is the market for human servants? I mean, how many people today in America are working as actual domestics? And whom would you rather have cleaning your toilets, sorting your undies, or drawing your bath? A human servant (who might be secretly spitting into your food, inadvertently sneezing onto your bedsheets, unthinkingly picking his nose while he folds the napkins)? Or a gleaming android?
Actually, the robotic servants will often be so unobtrusive (e.g., self-cleaning toilets, "intelligent" washing machines, built-in water temperature regulators, etc.) that you won't even be aware of them. Things will seem to happen "by magic."
Regards,
>By the same token, people have horses because they are a high-status thing to have. These so-called “horseless carriages” will never really catch on!
Talking with the historically ignorant is always fun.
>QUESTION: Just how big is the market for human servants? I mean, how many people today in America are working as actual domestics? And whom would you rather have cleaning your toilets, sorting your undies, or drawing your bath? A human servant (who might be secretly spitting into your food, inadvertently sneezing onto your bedsheets, unthinkingly picking his nose while he folds the napkins)? Or a gleaming android?
Me? I’d take a robot. However, as you mockingly noted the rich continued to ride horses despite them being outmoded because they’re expensive and high status. Human societies are built around status, not economic cheapness and ordering other people around will always be high status. Thus there will always be jobs either in serving the rich or in producing handcrafted items for them.
Read the diamond age for a primer on how this works.