The good and the bad.
10 robots replacing 10 humans on an assembly line may take jobs away, but it also keeps people off the SSDI roles. Those robots are doing repetitive motion jobs that are proven to disable hundreds of thousands every year.
Over 100,000 people will be diagnosed with just carpel tunnel syndrome in 2011. Right or wrong, about 10% of them will end up being declared permanently disabled.
Most of the rest will miss months of work to recovery from surgery and suffer with the loss of motor skills to some degree for the rest of their life.
Becoming a burden on our health care and unemployement systems.