Distribution of Wealth in a Robot-Driven World 900
An anonymous reader sent another piece by Marshall Brain. He continues his examination of a society where most manual labor is performed by machines, idling a large fraction of the current workforce. See his previous piece for background.
Re:We are the world (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, back in the eighties at least trolls had some integrity. Are you trying to say that the decade of porsche-driving-yuppies, reaganomics, Wall Street boom and nascence of Bill Gates empire was less greedy that the 2000's? Just because of *one* song? If you want to capture the spirit of the 1980's, read the "American Psycho" and watch the "Wall Street" (or even better the Brit TV-series "Capital City", the most shamelessly pro-yuppie manifesto I ever saw).
In the beginning there was man, and for a time... (Score:5, Funny)
But humanity's so called civil societies soon fell victim to vanity and corruption.
Then man made the machine in his own likeness. Thus did man become the architect of his own demise...
Ha! I knew I'd seen this before! [intothematrix.com]
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We already dont need all the people (Score:5, Funny)
Which is why we have poverty, prisons, welfare, and the republican party.
Is it just me... (Score:3, Funny)
financial services, creative services, IT itself could be spawned.
Is it just me, or does anyone else find the term "human capital" offensive?
If you are talking about the plebs, I much prefer the term "human cattle".
And then... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Almost insightful.. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What's with the damn sci-fi books? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Almost insightful.. (Score:3, Funny)
That's what life was all about.
Re:Ever tried eating $1M worth of bread a year? ;- (Score:3, Funny)
-1: Redundant ;) (Score:3, Funny)
Re:My job replacement (Score:3, Funny)
Reason.
KFG
Goals? (Score:5, Funny)
I thought the first goal was not to injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.