yep, certainly agree with the innate desire to be productive in some capacity. If robots help to free people of menial work and enable them to produce value higher up the chain (intellectual, creative, inventive, etc) work, I'm all for it, bring on the future. Or, if socially "required" labor can be massively reduced (spread thinner to more people)thereby creating large chunks of free time for people to explore, educate and strengthen bonds with family/friends/neighbors, well, that would be amazing and would seem to be a positive social evolution for society (and actually deliver the promise of technology by reducing human labor instead of just allowing capital to push it hard in order to skim a little more). Permitting government (at least in its current form) to architect the social evolution of the excess labor pool scares me a little though. With government and corporates so intertwined, its hard to believe that idle hands would be viewed as anything more than a profit opportunity, meaning, back to work suckers on the newest Rube Goldberg economic machination (I'll cite David Graeber's bullshit jobs paradigm here ;).