Problem
But in ten years Rossum's Universal Robots will produce so much corn, so much cloth, so much everything that things will be practically without price. There will be no poverty. All work will be done by living machines. Everybody will be free from worry and liberated from the degradation of labor. Everybody will live only to perfect himself.
Helena. Will he?
Domin. Of course. It's bound to happen. But then the servitude of man to man and the enslavement of man to matter will cease. Of course terrible things may happen at first, but that simply can't be avoided. Nobody will get bread at the price of life and hatred. The Robots will wash the feet of the beggar and prepare a bed for him in his house.
• Contextualize this passage: Identify the characters, minimally explain the broader context of the story, the immediate context (what has happened right before this?), and explain what is happening here.
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