Have we forgotten that this is still the United States of America? Business owners should be free to establish whatever payment terms they want to. If the arrangements are too onerous the market will sort things out.

Hold on a minute. Whatever attributes robots may someday possess, they will only possess what some human has programmed. They are, in their infancy, and will always be, machines created to serve humanity in one way or another. The proposition that a robot has rights is laughable. You might as well arbitrarily assign…