You maybe right. However there must be a rock bottom price for the basic stuff we require and their must be some kind of maximum to advertisement budgets that can be spend? Regardless who pays, the costs that it takes to create, produce and deliver the goods and services offered, must somehow be recovered.
If we would take a view in the future, and just forget how we got there, and we take the extreme: all goods and services are created, produced and deliverd by robots, and robots are maintaining the complete infrastructure to create, produce and deliver those goods and services, in principle all goods and service can be delivered free-of-charge, therefore humans do not need money anymore to 'buy' required and wanted goods and services.
I suspect you are somehow mixing the idea of a robot like an android capable of decisions, with what the actual robots are: machines capable to multiply productivity by ~20.
Robots are not supposed to "run" anything: in the concept of Industry 4.0, they are just an utterly complex tool, able to make a single human to produce like 20 were producing before. Is not like you leave robots alone and they run the company: means that a company with 6000 employees, will go to 600 humans, plus robots/AI.
Imagine a company only run by upper managers , Research and Development for new products, and a few production engineers, or something like that. You can find the whole framework of Industry 4.0 from the website of the German Ministry which defined the standard and leads the countrywide application:
http://www.plattform-i40.de/I40/Navigation/DE/Home/home.html
My future somewhat futuristic view is indeed Androids capable of decision making.
I actually believe this will become possible, sooner or later. In mu view, this will even be sooner than later. Give it 30 to 50 years and we have Androids and we do not need humans anymore to create, produce, deliver, and provide service.
Interesting link you provided! Will have a closer look at it later on.
I slightly disagree, for an amount of regulatory issues we face in our work (I Work with "Emerging Technologies") everyday. I
I wrote about it here:
https://steemit.com/funny/@puffosiffredi/installing-ubuntu-linux-on-terminator-t-800-howto
and here:
https://steemit.com/science/@puffosiffredi/explaining-ia-to-my-mother-or-at-least-i-try-hard