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Cheese Sandwich

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3. I'm skeptical. People have been talking about fully automated society for at least 100 years.

Reply to Powers Hapgood (Original post)

Thu May 19, 2016, 03:21 PM

May 2016

Most scarcity is artificial anyway. It's a failure of organization not of technology. If robots start doing all the work don't worry the system will give half of us bullshit jobs and make the other half supervisors and prison guards.

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I'm skeptical. People have been talking about fully automated society for at least 100 years. Cheese Sandwich May 2016 #3