There's no mandate that we keep every job in an industry for human workers and it wouldn't make sense to do this. If this did make sense, we would still be employing buggy whip makers. Vacuuming is about as low skilled as you can get, of course, it was going to get replaced by robots. However, vacuuming is only a small part of hotel work. There's another reason hotel workers haven't come back.

on handouts from the 1% to fund the advancement of our civilization. That's how they did it for centuries until gov'ts got involved, and progress was really, really slow.

Instead of modding me down, try telling me why it wouldn't be a good place. Don't be a coward.

And on Slashdot, Anonymous Cowards can lie, distort and misrepresent everything. Because to them, they are ABOVE IT ALL!

Slashdot Beta confuses the world.

"Freedom solves everything" crowd?

Libertarians are the "Freedom for me solves everything" crowd.

The instant you start talking about other people's freedom you are branded a "bleeding-heart."

These days, it's more like this:

Three represents the trinity, so the answer to all questions is obviously three. But the evil liberal scientists are claiming that 2+2=4, and Nate Silver reports on that. So some pundits and bloggers come up with "Unskewed Arithmetic," where 2+2=3, and Fox News eagerly reports on that, to the applause of their viewers. Nate Silver is attacked personally, as being "Thin and effeminate."

But then someone gets two coconuts, and two more coconuts, and put them down and actually count them. They come up with four! So Fox News and its viewers complain that it's because all those welfare recipients always they're entitled to one more of everything.

That's right. Even reporting that 2+2=4 is biased. Because why did you not include Jesus???

Well, you certainly put a lot of effort into that reply. But please look at my responses to the other replies in this thread. I guess I just didn't add enough exclamation points and "Duh"s, or emphasize the "Texas high school math book" aspect enough, for most people to get the joke.

I guess I should have added a lot of extra exclamation points mixed with 1s, and put "Hurr Durr" at the end or something.

Holy fuck, does no one on Slashdot understand jokes? Look at the number 1 replacing an exclamation point in the headline and the post. Then look at the line "(Goes back to reading Texas high school math book)." Does every joke have to be spelled out?

Incidentally, did you know that the word "Whoosh" has been eliminated from Texas dictionaries?

Uhh . . . wait a second!!1

How could U.S. scores rise to 4th from 14th, when four is less than 14??? They mean "lower"!

(Goes back to reading Texas high school math book)

"Prospective" is an adjective, so I'm not sure how it makes sense by itself in a headline. Prospective what?

I was thinking you meant something like, "Have some perspective," which makes a lot of sense, given the body of your post.

But can that 35-year-old spell "Perspective"?