Getting close to independently rediscovering my old showerthought about the probability of the rise of a technological "helot" class.funkervogt wrote: ↑Thu May 19, 2022 10:59 pm Once household robots are common, people will be able to tell them to create backyard gardens, which will boost global food supplies and give people more control over the inputs that go into their own foods.
https://www.theseasonalhomestead.com/th ... er-acre-1/
If I have a household robot that can plant a garden outside my home, why wouldn't I sell its services so that it also worked at a larger fully-automated municipal farm that could allow for a much larger surplus of food? And why stop there: I could sell its services to the city for it to do multiple things when I don't need personal service from a robot. But if I'm not willing to sell its services, the city could have its own helot droids that run a collective farm all the same so that there's never a food shortage. After all, I live in an apartment, so my prospects for a backyard garden aren't great... but I could always rely upon these helots for backup.