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, blkmusclmachine Aug 2014 #1
Vonnegut called this decades ago KamaAina Aug 2014 #2
Except in "Player Piano," the citizenry got houses, food, medical care, and Nay Aug 2014 #77
Well at some point they will have to make jobs for people n2doc Aug 2014 #3
Or just share the profits n/t leftstreet Aug 2014 #4
Heaven's no! n2doc Aug 2014 #8
I think with that kind of unemplyment, society will tear itself apart. NutmegYankee Aug 2014 #14
That's what I mean n2doc Aug 2014 #15
Exactly. With a great deal of permanently-unemployed people they could riot, loot, etc. Louisiana1976 Aug 2014 #31
There's a third option..... Spitfire of ATJ Aug 2014 #34
There are lots of good options n2doc Aug 2014 #38
What is with this fetish for unnecessary labor? DireStrike Aug 2014 #41
The depressing thing is, we could already do some of that. But we don't. phantom power Aug 2014 #43
True enough. DireStrike Aug 2014 #48
Star Trek predicts a future without money.... Spitfire of ATJ Aug 2014 #46
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
People forget why it was windmills Quixote charged Recursion Aug 2014 #71
A century is not a particularly important length of time. DireStrike Aug 2014 #74
Is it the Delphinus Aug 2014 #73
That will be the purpose of World War III. roamer65 Aug 2014 #50
Libertarians do have an answer. hifiguy Aug 2014 #5
I think that was more along what Stalin and Mao did. former9thward Aug 2014 #26
Nice sound bite. DireStrike Aug 2014 #42
Nice Marxist sound bite former9thward Aug 2014 #45
The Randites would go more for hifiguy Aug 2014 #58
Stalin lives again. former9thward Aug 2014 #59
that's already happening tho. redruddyred Nov 2014 #82
As I listen, the voice also seems computer-generated...... djean111 Aug 2014 #6
a wildly external event happens Glassunion Aug 2014 #23
Bwahahaha! Yes! The robots NEVER expect the Spanish Inquisition! djean111 Aug 2014 #24
Excellent!! hifiguy Aug 2014 #60
So much for Karl Marx and his "labor theory of value"... nt GliderGuider Aug 2014 #7
You haven't read Marx, obviously. JackRiddler Aug 2014 #39
You can start here. GliderGuider Aug 2014 #63
Oh no, a libertarian attack site dislikes Marx. JackRiddler Aug 2014 #64
Very few of us "really read" outside our choice of ideological frameworks very often. GliderGuider Aug 2014 #67
I'm very interested. JackRiddler Aug 2014 #68
No, I'm not Tim Garrett. However, GliderGuider Aug 2014 #72
Will it be completely problematic? ck4829 Aug 2014 #9
That depends on what kinds of choices we humans make. For now. phantom power Aug 2014 #16
Yes, but can we afford to survive as we learn, explore, volunteer, etc.? Louisiana1976 Aug 2014 #33
We would need a lot of things people consider 'socialism' ck4829 Aug 2014 #61
The people inside the dome who own the robots will not hear our cries. n/t Orsino Aug 2014 #10
so the answer is....invest in robotics firms! nt antigop Aug 2014 #11
Seems to me that the more jobless people, the fewer consumers there will be. djean111 Aug 2014 #12
That is one possible outcome phantom power Aug 2014 #17
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
It seems to me that the only way to correct for this problem is to LuvNewcastle Aug 2014 #13
I think a GNI would be an excellent idea--but agree that it would be diffiicult, if not impossible, Louisiana1976 Aug 2014 #35
It's not going to come to a revolution. Liberal MRA Aug 2014 #81
If government can take the banksters and corporations out of the equation, Trillo Aug 2014 #18
There will always be jobs for human benders Capt. Obvious Aug 2014 #19
Do real Democrats even use the label Democrats anymore? L0oniX Aug 2014 #21
Only made it about four minutes in wickerwoman Aug 2014 #22
Pretty much every "thing" is already manufactured in a factory, which takes energy. DireStrike Aug 2014 #49
It's not so much the energy as the materials to construct the robots wickerwoman Aug 2014 #57
Oh I agree on your timescale. DireStrike Aug 2014 #62
Republicans will be lost now that they wont be able to say. Get a JOB you lazy bum! ErikJ Aug 2014 #25
And that's the truth. Louisiana1976 Aug 2014 #36
Over-the-top fear mongering IMO Auggie Aug 2014 #27
Why is the liberation from labor "fear mongering"?! JackRiddler Aug 2014 #29
Its more like a public service announcement phantom power Aug 2014 #40
Really? You don't think robots can at some point do everything? nt Logical Aug 2014 #54
The promise of tech was to free humans from labor.... Spitfire of ATJ Aug 2014 #28
Koch said people should be willing to be street-sweepers. JackRiddler Aug 2014 #30
Someone needs to tell him there are machines that do that.... Spitfire of ATJ Aug 2014 #32
It won't be pretty. lpbk2713 Aug 2014 #37
That chart at the end was very very interesting phantom power Aug 2014 #44
We saw this coming decades ago. In some of my economics classes we discussed a jobless society. RKP5637 Aug 2014 #51
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Aug 2014 #53
k and r nt Mojorabbit Aug 2014 #56
In my job they aren't replacing us with robots... lunatica Aug 2014 #65
Perhaps human purpose and the human experience ZX86 Aug 2014 #66
This guy isn't as bright as he thinks he is LOL snooper2 Aug 2014 #69
BUCKMINSTER FULLER said it better! JackRiddler Aug 2014 #70
I've never read that quote before, Delphinus Aug 2014 #75
Bucky Fuller. Trim Tab. NYC_SKP Aug 2014 #78
Do we have adequate resources to power all these machines? Hippo_Tron Aug 2014 #76
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
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