Garrick van Buren hits the nail on the head with his short post:

Just as we handwash dishes even though we have an automatic dishwasher, we still vacuum, abeit less frequently, with a non-robotic vacuum.

The introductions of these machines only shifted the labor.

It didn’t eliminate the labor.

Labor remains an ever present part of the human condition. It’s just us talking to robots over and over again rather than people. I will say, that’s the heartbreaking part. We need to keep that human connection going. Don’t let the robots be the middleman. Oops, maybe I spoke too soon.