But I do worry about the question of how people make a living in these conditions. It's not enough to say 'basic income' because absent a massive economic shift most robots are going to be privately owned, and the owners of such capital will ask why they should donate a large volume of their profit to support non-productive individuals. Put another way, I'm not sure that the arrival of technological abundance will necessarily be accompanied by optimal social structures in the short term. A sudden and drastic acceleration in social stratification followed by unrest sems to be a far more common pattern. A luddite backlash is also a possibility, and a stronger one than usual given the factor of AI, which some people seem to have an atavistic fear of.