Those will require maintenance as well. You live in a dream world where technically, Humanity would be pointless and die off anyhow.
I'm not sure why so many people think a maintenance unit can't maintain another maintenance unit. Unless you also believe that doctors have a secret group of doctors that only treat doctors ad infinium until we reach the super secret ALLDOCTOR? There's no functional difference between a general purpose robot that can fix other machines and one that can fix other robots.
Humanity is pointless now, but hasn't died off because there's nothing aggressive enough to wipe it out.
So how about that capitalism, huh?
I think giving the workers a much greater deal of power has merit, but is likely to fall into a similar problem of them not voting to use new, more efficient equipment because their friends will get downsized.
Fight smart, not fair.I think discussion travelling into transhumanism might be beyond the scope of this discussion.
Long story short, what I want is management to have its fortunes tied to the respective underlying aspects of the corporation they manage; when the welfare of the workers improve it is because the corporation has better profits, when the profits of the corporation improve it increases the welfare of its workers.
Until we build robots with sufficient versatility to actually be general fixit units.
Fight smart, not fair.