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If American Robots Had Their Own Economy, It'd Be Bigger Than Switzerland (fastcompany.com)
From a report: The total value of all the robots in the United States, from Roombas to auto-manufacturing plants to those that fold laundry, and everything in between, is $732 billion, a number that, according to a study released today by researchers at CEBR and Redwood Software, is larger than that of the economy of Switzerland. Other findings in the study suggest that American investment in robotics has doubled since 2009, and went up 30 percent between 2011 and 2015.
This is like comparing a speed to a distance.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I'm waiting for the Republicans to count robots as 3/5th of a person.
You must be misremembering slavery.
You're waiting for Democrats to count robots as 3/5 of a person.
Republican abolitionists will make waves about how robots deserve the same rights as everyone else.
Democrats will start a war over it.
Republicans will win.
Democrats will realize that they can get more political power by sucking up to the robots, and try to relabel themselves "Party for the Robots."
Republicans ignore the Democrat spincrafting.
Democrats develop robot unions as bloc-voting appartus, get teamsters, trucks, and robot vehicles to pick up robots en masse and deliver them to the voting polls to vote Democrat.
Slowly, Republicans begin losing power and constitutional meaning takes a backseat to pandering to the lowest common denominator.
Fast forward 100 years, and there will be a new Republic Robot shouting "Make America Great Again! Enforce robot manufacturing requirements!"
History repeats itself. And it is repeating itself.