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Agnosticsherbet

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5. I don't blame technology or capitalists. Technological change occurred long before capitalists.

Mon Jun 13, 2016, 12:08 PM

Jun 2016

But freeing people for mental labor requires a fundamentally different form of society and economy than the one we are living in.

Workers exchange labor for capital (money) to buy products to consume.
If all labor is handled by robots, then only those who own the robots in our system benefit from that labor. The former human workers are left to themselves to live whatever brief, miserable lives they can manage.

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Siemens is Building a Swarm of 3D Printing Spider Robots With a Hive Mind [View all] Agnosticsherbet Jun 2016 OP

They've invented Replicators! csziggy Jun 2016 #1

Yes, yes they have. Agnosticsherbet Jun 2016 #3

It's just that tech is moving faster than katsy Jun 2016 #2

I don't blame technology or capitalists. Technological change occurred long before capitalists. Agnosticsherbet Jun 2016 #5

But that fails when there's no market katsy Jun 2016 #6

Not necessarily. Agnosticsherbet Jun 2016 #8

Depressing. katsy Jun 2016 #14

Things that replacate themselves packman Jun 2016 #4

uh... about those idiots... philosslayer Jun 2016 #11

Ha, ha - you got me packman Jun 2016 #15

The Crematorium ovens at Buchenwald still bear the Siemens name . JEB Jun 2016 #7

I'm reminded of the sci-fi movie 'Screamers' postatomic Jun 2016 #9

What happens when that thing becomes self aware? Initech Jun 2016 #10

Launch a ton of them greytdemocrat Jun 2016 #12

You mean we're facing a flood of Siemens? Orrex Jun 2016 #13

ewww. . . .n/t annabanana Jun 2016 #16