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To: BfloGuy

What do you do with the majority of the population that doesn’t take care of the bots? Starve them? Feed them for free? Turn the bots on them?

In a free society, like the early Republic of Rome, suddenly gets flooded with cheap labor (in that case, slaves from Germany) that the free man can’t make a living, you have a situation that will either lead to revolution, or to the State caring for most people in order to keep them happy. In Rome, it led to both. Massive welfare and a revolution from a Republic to an Empire.

We are trending to the same place.


44 posted on 12/06/2013 10:30:40 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: redgolum
We are trending to the same place.

What you are describing is a political problem not an economic one. There can be no inevitable march towards the obsolescence of man unless the government creates the conditions for it.

I can see how that might happen here -- but it is not economic law. Once again, it will be the work of politicians.

95 posted on 12/06/2013 2:18:17 PM PST by BfloGuy ( Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas.)
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