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In reply to the discussion: This is the future. It doesn't include jobs for humans. [View all]Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)19. There will always be jobs for human benders
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Exactly. With a great deal of permanently-unemployed people they could riot, loot, etc.
Louisiana1976
Aug 2014
#31
Exactly! We certainly are not even close, but that's what it will be ... the road getting there
RKP5637
Aug 2014
#52
Here's three almost forgotten words guaranteed to drive the right winger in your life insane...
Spitfire of ATJ
Aug 2014
#55
Very few of us "really read" outside our choice of ideological frameworks very often.
GliderGuider
Aug 2014
#67
I understand about a model where humans do not have to work to earn resources.
djean111
Aug 2014
#20
It may be that we can engineer a guerilla-automated-capital-production campaign.
DireStrike
Aug 2014
#47
I think a GNI would be an excellent idea--but agree that it would be diffiicult, if not impossible,
Louisiana1976
Aug 2014
#35
Pretty much every "thing" is already manufactured in a factory, which takes energy.
DireStrike
Aug 2014
#49
Republicans will be lost now that they wont be able to say. Get a JOB you lazy bum!
ErikJ
Aug 2014
#25
We saw this coming decades ago. In some of my economics classes we discussed a jobless society.
RKP5637
Aug 2014
#51
I think this is coming, but the effect so far is not enough to explain current employment problems
Silent3
Aug 2014
#79
The only reason for the very existence of most of us is that the Elite need labor grunts
johnlucas
Aug 2014
#80