Thank you for your experience-based post.

Killjoy.

Most likely they are all dead by now, 11 billion years later.

Isn't Henry Ford still dead? Or is he a zombie now?

since people won't have jobs and won't be able to, you know, buy things.

You, sir, are a fucking moron.

And how exactly would you do that?
Our society doesn't allow prior restraint in most cases.

How does recognizing the overwhelming impact that profit has on behavior give me a distorted world view? Project much?

after 4 decades of profit? Not likely.

Why, when only 1 comment is visible, does slashdot say '3 of 3 loaded', even when I click 'Get more comments' or 'load all comments'?
Does 1=3 on slashdot?

I don't, and I have a degree in mathematics!

20% isn't one in twenty.

and can't for the life of me figure out how a computer would have helped.

to Larry Card?

And your evidence for this is what again?