In the 1960s I had hoped that Robots might be owned by individuals so they could go to work instead of us

However, at least for now that is not the direction all this is going.

In the 1960s I wanted robots to be owned by individuals (sort of like owning your own business) where you would own a robot and instead of you going to work for someone you would send your robot out during the day to work for you instead.

However, so far it hasn't gone that way and more and more Americans now just think and act like slaves like people do in most countries on earth with no rights and no privileges at all.

I think immigrants from other countries have taught Americans more and more to give up their rights and privileges out of desperation.

And maybe they no longer teach Americans in school that they actually have rights. Or that in the 1950s people actually had rights.

So, more and more Americans think now like slaves and only the college educated have this notion anymore of being "a Captain of your own ship and a master of your own destiny" which I think is very very sad.

Whereas when I grew up everyone I knew was a "Captain of their own ship and master of their own destiny" (even if they didn't have teeth by age 40 in the 1950s) and had to wear dentures for one reason or another. Whereas now I have all my teeth except for one implant in the front of my mouth and thousands of dollars worth of dental work so I still have all these teeth even if 8 of them are root canals.

So, things have changed on many different levels from what life was like in the 1950s.

Today people in their 70s are often younger than people were in their 20s and 30s here in the U.S. in the 1950s.

In the 1950s people would get married by 16 or 18 years of age but be very old by their 30s and 40s and often die by 50 especially if they were blue collar hard workers. This was very very common then. And being a grandmother by 35 or 40 years of age was much more normal then too.

Whereas statistically now the older you are when you have your children the longer you tend to live here in the U.S. So, teenage years often stretch into ones 30s now before people have kids, so you see people now becoming grandparents more in their 60s and 70s rather when they are 30 to 40 like you saw in the 1950s.