The big question over the next twenty years will be: what happens to the populations of the Third World when automation finally becomes cheaper than what it costs to keep an unskilled Third World worker fed?
Bingo, and it will happen. I have a few ideas of what to do about it, but few would like them without making serious adjustments in their thinking.
57 posted on 05/05/2013 6:07:20 AM PDT by Carry_Okie
(An economy is not a zero-sum game, but politics usually is.)