No problem, per se, just facts too often ignored by those trying to work out a formula for how to succeed in business or get rich quick or plan a comfortable retirement.
Those simply trying to avoid getting crushed by the system already know: "Them that's got shall get; them that's not shall lose. God bless the child that's got it all." If you want to get rich, you usually have to be rich. Making your first fortune is always the hardest.
If you aren't already in a position to invest anything--if you are living paycheck-to-paycheck or worse--the only way to own a robot is to build one, because you can't buy one. You can be outbid by anyone with a dollar that isn't already spent. You're already screwed. But you knew that, because you're pinching pennies so hard that Lincoln cries out, then the Lincoln in the monument on the reverse side squeaks out a protest. And if you do manage to build a robot, you'll probably have to sell it at some point for less than it its true worth, due to a crisis.
It even says it in the article. All you need to do to buy enough Amazon stock to retire is to already own a chain of grocery stores in New Jersey! Meanwhile, the employees of those grocery stores have to cut each other's throats to get an Amazon warehouse job, because that game of musical chairs took so many seats away all at once.
"Just own the damn robots" is a surrender to the zero-intervention inevitability of an ownership class that owns everything, and a dispossessed class enslaved to them economically, yet also almost entirely useless to them. Owning things is a solution that only works for problems that rich people have. It's advice maybe good enough for the top 10%, worried that they will backslide. It doesn't do anything for the bottom 90%, who either can't get ownership of a robot, or can't keep it long enough for it to solve their financial problems.
Those simply trying to avoid getting crushed by the system already know: "Them that's got shall get; them that's not shall lose. God bless the child that's got it all." If you want to get rich, you usually have to be rich. Making your first fortune is always the hardest.
If you aren't already in a position to invest anything--if you are living paycheck-to-paycheck or worse--the only way to own a robot is to build one, because you can't buy one. You can be outbid by anyone with a dollar that isn't already spent. You're already screwed. But you knew that, because you're pinching pennies so hard that Lincoln cries out, then the Lincoln in the monument on the reverse side squeaks out a protest. And if you do manage to build a robot, you'll probably have to sell it at some point for less than it its true worth, due to a crisis.
It even says it in the article. All you need to do to buy enough Amazon stock to retire is to already own a chain of grocery stores in New Jersey! Meanwhile, the employees of those grocery stores have to cut each other's throats to get an Amazon warehouse job, because that game of musical chairs took so many seats away all at once.
"Just own the damn robots" is a surrender to the zero-intervention inevitability of an ownership class that owns everything, and a dispossessed class enslaved to them economically, yet also almost entirely useless to them. Owning things is a solution that only works for problems that rich people have. It's advice maybe good enough for the top 10%, worried that they will backslide. It doesn't do anything for the bottom 90%, who either can't get ownership of a robot, or can't keep it long enough for it to solve their financial problems.