They told us cars would fly, cities would be clean, and our jobs would consist of pushing buttons. An endless stream of consumable goods would flow from the tireless robotic work force. No one would begrudge the poor all the food, medicine, shelter, or education they wanted, if robots did the work. No one need ever come home stained with grease and exhausted to a hungry family dressed in cast-off clothes. No one need ever give up an education in order to feed hungry mouths.
Robots can do the work.
Our current technology is sufficient to produce robots that can take over many tasks now performed by humans. With the aid of direct funding by our Federal Government, robotic technology would quickly advance to the point that all jobs that are strenuous, repetitive, dangerous, and poorly paid could be taken over by robots. A final solution would have to be determined by Congress after much study, but in the short term an easy solution would be for corporations to pay workers for the work done by the government-provided robots that replaced them. Since the robots would produce goods ceaselessly and efficiently our nation would reach new heights as the breadbasket of the world . Essentially, our government would buy freedom for America s poorest workers by providing Industry with the docile, completely obedient workforce it has always wanted.