This article is a little too high minded and academic to take seriously. Non-tech people don’t usually think about robotic rights or AI slavery unless they’ve been watching a dystopian Sci-fi film recently. Here’s my two American cents:
In the United States, if you’re poor, society says it’s your fault and you’re on your own. If you can’t get a leg up on the economic ladder because the burger-flipping jobs were replaced by robots, you’d have every right to fear them.
I can’t speak for Japan but it is my understanding that society is more group-oriented there, and social spending and government priorities appear to reflect that. So even if a robot takes your job, you may have a better chance at making a decent living some other way than you might in the West.
These are popsci topics, they're touched upon all of the time in fiction and I'd hardly say they're too academic of topics to approach in such an article.
>"If you can’t get a leg up on the economic ladder because the burger-flipping jobs were replaced by robots, you’d have every right to fear them." //
Fear? Hate them, for sure; decry them, but fear? Doesn't make sense to me -- perhaps I'm wired differently to the majority, but it looks like something other than fear.
In the United States, if you’re poor, society says it’s your fault and you’re on your own. If you can’t get a leg up on the economic ladder because the burger-flipping jobs were replaced by robots, you’d have every right to fear them.
I can’t speak for Japan but it is my understanding that society is more group-oriented there, and social spending and government priorities appear to reflect that. So even if a robot takes your job, you may have a better chance at making a decent living some other way than you might in the West.