word). most people assume that being rich means having lots of stuff (or: material wealth as the dictionary likes to call it). the reason why this word is so easily misunderstand has to do with one's reference point. if our reference point is 'our peers', then yes, robots who cause us to lose our job today will seem to make us poor "in the present" compared to our peers who still have jobs today. but this is a very short term perspective on what usually ends up being a very long term life. since human lives tend to last longer than a day or a week, it seems much more 