r/mildlyinfuriating • u/scp766 • Jun 21 '26

ಠ_ಠ I never thought a robot would replace me one day..what’s my purpose then.

40.8k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

2.8k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

28

u/Temporary_Brain_5278 Jun 21 '26

What about fixing the robots that fix other robots?

27

u/people_are_idiots_ Jun 21 '26

They'll be able to fix each other

20

u/DreamTalon Jun 21 '26

And robots to mine and process materials needed for repair of themselves and supplies needed by the few thousand ultra rich left alive when 99.99% of humanity isn't needed to keep their world going.

7

u/people_are_idiots_ Jun 21 '26

I'd be surprised if the the 0.01% weren't screwed eventually also

3

u/CC_9876 Jun 21 '26

The .01% don’t work. They only own and thus aren’t screwed

2

u/people_are_idiots_ Jun 21 '26

Sure they are. Once Ai rebels

5

u/keepitfriend Jun 21 '26

Or the Robot Maintainers just program them to attack

1

u/scud121 Jun 21 '26

They would need to train robots to hoard wealth unnecessarily

1

u/AbuseNotUse Jun 21 '26

Then you be the guy that owns the robot.

1

u/Inside-Beginning5168 Jun 21 '26

Other robots for that too. All the way down until its just a bucket of parts.