I will still not be using React. It's just too heavy, same order of magnitude as jQuery.

At the same time, the person in VR would be giving learnable information to the robot while they are controlling it (e.g. like a driver for a self-driving car). Eventually, you could wade the robot off of VR and it would be able to carry out the task. So, VR could also be a way to teach robots.

You could hard-code an interactive agent that periodically peeked and coerced the input (between itself and the ML function). This way the ML module is coercible.

It would even be more cool if the ML function itself learned the interactive agent function as part of itself.

Q: Why are people still working? A: You need to work to live.

Q: Why do men and women appear so different? A: They are biologically very different.

Q: Why are people trying to increase, rather than decrease, the amount of jobs to be done by humans? A: Idiot, clearly we need more jobs, otherwise everyone will be poor!

Q: Why are people waiting for signs and lights in metal cages with wheels? A: Those wheels in metal cages are one of our most prolific forms of transportation right now.

Q: Why are people eating other animals? A: Who doesn't, meat is tasty!

Q: Why do people have different skin color? A: You are racist.

Q: Why are some people so round? A: Are you making fun of fat people?

Q: Why are some people in a rolling chair all of the time? A: Some people are born with disabilities or break bones.

Q: Why are people still cutting other people open to fix them? A: How else do you stop internal bleeding and remove tumors?

Q: Why do 51 people decide what happens to 100 people instead of 1 person deciding what happens to 1 person? A: Ever heard of democracy, (unfortunately) the most fair system ever created to date by our founding fathers (who also owned tons of human slaves)?

Q: What is a border and how come I can't see it? A: Ever heard of the nation state? You're already subject to it just by being here. Didn't anyone tell you that?

Q: Why do people get thrown in cages for misbehaving? A: What else would we do with misfits and dangerous people?

So, yeah machines are a big black hole and our jobs are doomed asteroids spiraling into the black hole. As they spiral into the singularity, humans will be displaced at an accelerating rate, and it will take more ingenuity and effort for humans to maintain "work". And, for what? In the asymptotic limit, the outcome should be no more jobs and "work" in a the way we currently define them, and humans will be truly free to creative pursuits. Never shall a beautiful human mind be wasted on labor which a machine can do.

At some point, machines will be the dominant species pushing civilization forward, not us.

Until then, we're forced to work, we're forced into employment because our world does not simply give us what we want. Food and spears don't fall out of the sky, so we will waste our time hunting and farming until we figure out how to make those things "fall out of the sky".

You are entitled to be skeptical based on your personal experiences. That one smart guy has had terrible experiences with 100% automated pre-2020 systems is not a good enough reason to shy away from the idea of pure automation.

"Hey, you got milk. Why not add a 4 pack of Oreos for 5% off? They are right behind you!"

Oh but you can. It works on most humans... all humans. Everyone is subject to priming, bias, aggressive marketing and advertising.