> It currently appears that further automation concentrates income to a smaller and smaller group of folk, how do you propose we mitigate that?

You know, every time I read such discussions I think that the communists probably have it right. The answer is to make the means of production (i.e., the robots) owned by the community rather than by individuals.

This could even be achieved without changing any laws: http://www.demos.org/blog/how-about-us-sovereign-wealth-fund