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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
How can we keep a human employed in the future when robots can do everything for cheaper?

I figure that if robots/automations become cheaper than paying for human workers, then why hire people at all? Also, you don’t have to worry about things like liability in high risk jobs. What are robots going to do to the job market? What will keep humans from becoming completely reliant on them? I see obvious potential for computer science/engineering/robotics jobs, but it seems like we are on our way to letting robots take the wheel so humans don’t have to lift a finger.
gpt
There are a few basic scenarios:

- Post-scarcity economy:  As pointed out before, robots do all of the work.  Everything beyond what is needed to live is strictly optional.  Economics will consist of things which are artificially scarce (intellectual property), innately scarce beyond the need for labor (front seats at a concert), or produced purely to say a human produced it (art, handmade tools, organic produce).  Jobs will consist of computer scientists and roboticists creating new robots, performance art, producing things by hand because people will pay for that, etc.  Everyone will be able to live the lifestyle of what we consider today to be the idle rich, similar to how the modern-day welfare recipient still lives better than most kings did a thousand years ago.

- Mass die-off:  Suppose the oligarchs in control of existing wealth decide they don't want to provide the fruits of their robots labor for free.  Huge swathes of the population can no longer gain useful employment because there's no demand for their skills.  The wealthy have no obligation to employ these people, and don't even need them to exist. Either Charity, family support, and existing public institutions allow them to exist until they die, or they starve to death in the streets.

- Revolution\Militarization:  People don't like the idea of dying in the streets, especially when roboticization means they don't have to.  They violently oppose the policies of the wealthy, and take control of the means of production.  Down with the Bourgeoisie, up with the proletariat, revolution!  Revolution!