Duncan Weldon predicts that robots will be installed in factories to make goods and in service centres like care homes to look after the elderly (“Learn to love a robot,” April). Displaced workers will have no wages and no purchasing power, so there will be no demand for these goods and services, which will therefore attract no buyers.
With no market for output, how can the economy survive? It is urgent that we answer the question “who shall own the robots?” The answer is to put ownership largely in the hands of workers.
Keith Paton, via email