Posted on 05/25/2014 5:49:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
When he saves your life don’t for get to tell him “Domo Arigato, Mr Roboto”
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Hai
Hand out birth control like candy and minimalize immigration.
Old Woody Allen joke: My father got laid off because they replaced him with a machine that can do everything he can do but twice as fast. To make things worse, my mom went out and bought one.
Robots still need people to maintain, upgrade and fix them - and these people can be very expensive and hard to get, causing long stretches of downtime. Robots are generally inflexible - they can only do what they are programmed to do. If conditions are constantly changing, they may be a poor choice. For fast food and warehouse operations, they probably work pretty well though. The burger flippers whining for a “livable wage” may be pricing themselves out of a job.
"And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality - one vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock - all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused. And I have chosen you, Mr. Beale, to preach this evangel."
The answer to the robot question is leisure. Instead of factory laborers people can be ball boys and masseuses and yacht deck refinishers. Expand the leisure industries to soak up dislocated labor.
you must be a climate change denier... ;)
There are actual climate change deniers. Leftists who try to deny the Medieval Warming Period. But I’m not one of them.
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