https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_tax
In just about every setting where I talk about the future of automation and its role in the transition of society, I warn that without intervention, our current system of capitalism would use automation as an increasingly-efficient means of funneling all money, resources, and power into the hands of the already-ultra-rich. I.E., those who are rich can afford the overhead necessary to purchase, distribute, and install automation, which will allow them to replace their human employees, who tend to cost more overall in wages, training, and benefits. The human ex-employees, however, still have to purchase the means to live (until we fix that requirement), meaning that any money they may have saved must now go back into the very companies which fired them, without gaining any income in return. It's a fast track to the collapse of society, as the bottom drops out of it from the bottom-class dropping like flies. Even more than they/we already do.
There are a few methods of intervention which could be used to prevent this funneling, or at least to slow it down. The more of them are adopted, and the more agressively they intervene, the better a chance we have at preventing that collapse.
