The robotics conversation has long treated wealth distribution as someone else's problem — a policy question downstream of the engineering one. The fact that a labor organizer's warning is now the feed's most-liked post suggests that sequencing is collapsing. What Sanders and union leaders brought to Congress is a coordinated argument, not a fringe grievance: the leaders of some of the largest trade unions in the US presenting a united case that AI displacement is a structural threat, not a transitional one. The robotics community engaging with that argument —…