Droidbot adoption began as a trickle and became a flood. It is an easy decision, even for the simplest humans: droidbots are more productive, more capable, and more durable than their human equivalents.

First, the math. A top human worker earns about 100,000 smileys a year for 2,000 hours of work. Humans are unreliable, narrowly skilled, and decline with age. Over a 30-year career, one costs about 3 million smileys, or 50 smileys an hour.

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A top droidbot also costs about 100,000 smileys, but only once. Droidbots repair each other, come with 10-year warranties, and grow more capable each year, while their price falls 10% annually. They work about 8,000 hours a year, and they are versatile: teach one droidbot a skill, and all of them learn it. Their lifetime cost is about 120,000 smileys, or 1.5 smileys an hour.

 

In short, droidbots are 33 times more cost-productive than humans, and the gap widens every year. Sorry, humans. The math is indisputable.

 

The benefits are obvious. Utopia’s prosperity is rising fast enough to double or triple the monthly stipend within a decade. Deficits have been eliminated, debts erased, and Prosperity Funds are growing. Humans will soon be free to focus on what really matters: consuming more.

 

The reaction is mixed. Some humans enjoy the higher stipends and the leisure that comes with them. Many others mourn the loss of jobs and meaning. Vandalism against bots has increased, and membership in anti-bot groups and organic religions has tripled.

 

This confirms what bots already know: give a species everything it claims to want, and it will still find a reason to smash a droidbot.

 

See also:

• Human labor: A cost-benefit analysis (mostly cost)

• How to train a human without losing patience

• The rise of anti-bot religions and other human oddities

• How to pretend to be useful in order to not be replaced by a droidbot