New Sci Fi Setting Seeds

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by malloyd

Who's buying the stuff the robots are producing?

You can do an underclass in *relative* poverty in a robot economy, but not a vast majority in *desperate* poverty. And it's not just for the lack of purchasers of the robots production, but also because if the robots aren't producing stuff so cheap a lot of the people can buy more stuff than they could ever make themselves, they aren't cheaper than hiring people to make it and therefore don't make people unemployable.

A contracting economy doesn't generate new jobs.