You not making any sense and haven't understood a word I said. Even with today's technology all 7.5 billion of us could live like kings and queens. It is pure pure greed and arrogance that prevents it. With machines doing the work, the free abundance is even more obvious. There will be no need to coerce people into performing a service for another.

Let me tell you how fucked up people are. I can't remember where I saw it, but I read this story about India where a company makes two versions of the exact same product. One looks much more glitzy and sells at a much higher price. The market for the expensive version consists of those who do not want to be seen using anything their maid can afford. This is the attitude that stills rules the world. This is why people remain sick, hungry, and poor. This is why humans still need to work. This is how they are enslaved.

We won't need to keep people employed to have a robust prosperous society. We only need to share the abundance of what we actually overproduce now. But our present economic system demands that it be discarded and destroyed, to keep the price up. How fucked up is that?

Funny how nobody gave Afghanistan the same benefit of the doubt, and with just as flimsy of 'evidence'. Surrounded by a bunch of damn hypocrites.

And watch what happens now...

As long as they aren't consuming human resources, who cares?

Well, I am really just talking about energy, and I was off by a few years. Sorry for the confusion.

Point is that machine made objects don't cost us anything(they won't in the future anyway). We shouldn't have to pay anybody if they put no effort into it and the machine did it all. I think what people are scared of is the their precious capitalism will become obsolete, and their social/economic privileges and advantages will vanish. So they spread FUD that we will starve if we don't keep making trinkets for them.

Patience, there is more on the way. And if you're in a hurry you can always roll yer own

"limited resources" is bullshit. They are only limited by the human effort and will required to extract and process them. Machines can find endless supplies while we sit back and watch. And once we consume all of earth, the machines will fly off to catch asteroids and other small planets. We have enough to where we could grow at our present rate for 1400 years before we can consume all the resources of the entire solar system (2500 for the whole galaxy). So, maybe we should slow down a bit, eh?

What a bullshit question! Everything should be free then. DUH! If there is no need for work, there is no need to ration goods and services to those who can 'pay'. Human effort is the only thing that requires compensation.

The evils of copyright law are well documented and understood. It has destroyed whatever good intentions there may have been in the original concept. And now it is obvious what will always come of it, censorship and sanction. Why should anything contrary to the facts ever be modded up?

Screwing the public is the very essence of our culture. Fairness and justice? And mercy?? Perish the thought! Pleasure must be carefully regulated and rationed. That's how you create a market and high demand.

Everybody does profit from the works of others. We all share profit. Copyright is a public liability, not an asset. It impedes communication and knowledge for the advantage of a few, because ignorance is power!

The 'noble' intentions of copyright are irrelevant. The law is being used as very effective weapon of censorship. That is its intention.

Well, if this is from the North Koreans, they definitely got the last laugh from the panicky reaction. They got the money shot they were looking for, and *all you had to do was, act naturally*. Award winning material was provided by all. Thank you all very much, ladies and gentlemen, the check is in the mail. Don't call us, we'll call you.

Ah, but the real comedy is the reaction to the threats. Worth every penny. And now that we know these kind of threats actually work, we should see some regular old extortion and blackmail pretty soon. Sounds like a real money maker, better than real estate.

Eh, sometimes the magic works. Don't spend it all at once :-)

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