They said that there’s 9 meals between stability and revolution. Hopefully, that was a somewhat flippant comment back then…. However, the us is a heavily armed society and injecting a large group with nothing to lose will be a real problem.

This might be the factor that keeps the robots at bay. Politics seems to think that ubi “isn’t possible”, but a whole lot of people might want to keep jobs and thus food in their possession.

The world is a consumer economy, and the transition to Star Trek will be very difficult. Look for the rise of those promising to help their group vs those who’ll do it harm.