>Our economy is sucking the middle class dry - it only works for the rich.

And fear not the robots, there won't be enough of them and they won't be smart enough to justify the cost:

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/of-flying-cars-and-the-declining-rate-of-profit

Our carefully engineered high-tech sneakers were not being produced by intelligent cyborgs or self-replicating molecular nanotechnology; they were being made on the equivalent of old-fashioned Singer sewing machines, by the daughters of Mexican and Indonesian farmers who, as the result of WTO or NAFTA–sponsored trade deals, had been ousted from their ancestral lands.

Or, IOW, how capitalism (or whatever passes as it nowadays) is stifling development.