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Distribution of Wealth in a Robot-Driven World

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the when-robots-take-your-job dept.

An anonymous reader sent another piece by Marshall Brain. He continues his examination of a society where most manual labor is performed by machines, idling a large fraction of the current workforce. See his previous piece for background.

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  1. Re:We are the world by Trurl's+Machine · · Score: 5, Funny

    Remember when Michael Jackson didn't have an ugly nose? Yes, I am talking about the eighties. I think we ought to shutter ourselves from the greed grab that is the 2000's corporate culture for a moment every day to meditate, reflect, or just simply relax

    Yeah, back in the eighties at least trolls had some integrity. Are you trying to say that the decade of porsche-driving-yuppies, reaganomics, Wall Street boom and nascence of Bill Gates empire was less greedy that the 2000's? Just because of *one* song? If you want to capture the spirit of the 1980's, read the "American Psycho" and watch the "Wall Street" (or even better the Brit TV-series "Capital City", the most shamelessly pro-yuppie manifesto I ever saw).

  2. In the beginning there was man, and for a time... by Myriad · · Score: 4, Funny
    In the beginning there was man, and for a time it was good.
    But humanity's so called civil societies soon fell victim to vanity and corruption.
    Then man made the machine in his own likeness. Thus did man become the architect of his own demise...

    Ha! I knew I'd seen this before!

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  3. We already dont need all the people by HanzoSan · · Score: 4, Funny



    Which is why we have poverty, prisons, welfare, and the republican party.

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  4. Goals? by schnitzi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Goal #1 - For the strongest possible economy, we need to create the largest possible pool of consumers, and those consumers need to have money to spend.

    I thought the first goal was not to injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
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    I object to that article, and to the next reply.