We definitely do, as evidenced by all the jobs that have been automated over the past 100 years and people who are currently employed.
It’s not like people who manually harvested crops starved to death after tractors. Over history, automation has always created jobs.
Regarding middle class use of robots, I meant that middle classers would chip in and have a neighborhood maidbot. Having 10 households chip in $12.5k every 5 years is definitely doable. And since the robot is automated it could just spend an hour or two a day in each person’s home without any need for intervention. Just walking down the sidewalk between houses doing whatever needs doing. That’s a cool future.
