Fear the Capitalist Robots

So many sci fi fans tell us to fear the robot uprising citing movies such as Terminator and the Matrix, and authors such as Asimov, but we are already deep within an evil robotic uprising tearing apart the economy of this nation.

Over the past fifty years manufacturing has been increasingly streamlined with the use of automated machines allowing dangerous and menial tasks to be done without the cost of an additional blue collar workforce. Also, much automation has allowed many customer service jobs to be replaced by computers. All this was done to reduce cost and simplify workload.

Firing an entire factory's worth of car manufacturers and replacing them with robots has not allowed cars to become an cheaper. It has saved money only so that executives can sit on more. Had this process occurred in an benevolent socialist society, then cars and other manufactured goods would become cheaper as we are able to produce products with less expensive workforces. With more and more menial jobs replaced with capitalistic robots and an ever increasing population is resulting in a larger and larger economic ravine between the rich and the poor.

We are ripe for a socialist revolution, we can either embrace it as the next logical step. Or we need to defeat the robots and give humans their jobs back.