it does not almost definitionally become a small part of the economy. it only becomes a small part of the economy if the automated producers have little market power, which in fact is not our recent experience. 1/

and even if you posit somehow brutal competition in automated production, that doesn’t solve the problem of how incomes to the broad public come to be and in a reasonable distribution. 2/

what becomes the basis by which my caring for your mom entitles me to some share of the robots’ production? we can’t all care for Elon’s lovely mom. /fin