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10. Thanks for making me spew my Diet Pespi onto my keyboard n/t

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Within 10 Years Most Workers Will Be "Task Rabbits". R. Reich. [View all] TheMastersNemesis Nov 2015 OP

Thank you. Kath1 Nov 2015 #1

I wrote something very similar just under your post lunatica Nov 2015 #6

actually, given the number of guns in this country, there will be revolution before that roguevalley Nov 2015 #67

The US is turning into just another shit corporation for many people, definitely RKP5637 Nov 2015 #2

Reich and others have been warning of this for some time. When will people believe it, appalachiablue Nov 2015 #26

It doesn't matter if we believe it or not. Most people can't save a million Nay Nov 2015 #59

Tell me something I don't already realize, the wrath is also unnecessary. appalachiablue Nov 2015 #62

Exactly n/t easttexaslefty Nov 2015 #63

It will be as few jobs as is possible after computers do most of the work lunatica Nov 2015 #3

So pathetic, and it is future USA. n/t RKP5637 Nov 2015 #5

Absolutely right. Kath1 Nov 2015 #17

That's rotten LiberalEsto Nov 2015 #35

We had the same thing happen greymattermom Nov 2015 #37

That would make a nice OP in the California group KamaAina Nov 2015 #51

People performing low-skill, repetitive tasks, for little or no pay? Nye Bevan Nov 2015 #4

Wait, wut? By Jove... Xipe Totec Nov 2015 #9

Thanks for making me spew my Diet Pespi onto my keyboard n/t SickOfTheOnePct Nov 2015 #10

ROFL Definitely a DUzy. Live and Learn Nov 2015 #21

I look forward to the time robots become our overlords and give us a merciful death. nt Xipe Totec Nov 2015 #7

Naw lunatica Nov 2015 #8

If robot labor is cheaper, then it follows that maintenance robots are cheaper than humans. Xipe Totec Nov 2015 #12

Well unless we all just die they gotta find something for us to do lunatica Nov 2015 #13

That's a question for our silicon based replacements. Carbon is so Cenozoic nt Xipe Totec Nov 2015 #14

The large scale die-off has been on the drawing board hifiguy Nov 2015 #49

In essence, in a warped way, humans are robots now. n/t RKP5637 Nov 2015 #33

Obsolete robots. nt Xipe Totec Nov 2015 #40

Definitely, quite true! n/t RKP5637 Nov 2015 #44

Obsoletely Fabulous! Xipe Totec Nov 2015 #52

... RKP5637 Nov 2015 #53

Leela: "Oh lord, he's made out of wood." hifiguy Nov 2015 #56

This message was self-deleted by its author 1000words Nov 2015 #16

A love song! nt Xipe Totec Nov 2015 #18

Gogol Bordello Supertheory of Supereverything Xipe Totec Nov 2015 #20

You'll get as much cake as you like MowCowWhoHow III Nov 2015 #30

I'm looking forward to the Robotic Union riots... Javaman Nov 2015 #42

It Is Why Lower Unemployment Rates Ate Misleading colsohlibgal Nov 2015 #11

Except median pay is increasing and uninsured numbers plumetting whatthehey Nov 2015 #15

:facepalm: jeff47 Nov 2015 #19

+1000 nt Live and Learn Nov 2015 #22

It in large part depends on when you are measuring from mythology Nov 2015 #28

How much has the cost of public education increased? How are pensions doing comparatively? JonLeibowitz Nov 2015 #31

That's because the ever-wealthier 1% are skewing the median numbers LiberalEsto Nov 2015 #36

And if we go back to 5000 BCE, median income has increased massively!!! jeff47 Nov 2015 #41

K & R !!! WillyT Nov 2015 #23

To be followed by complaints that Americans "aren't spending enough!" hatrack Nov 2015 #24

I saw a report on the local news tonight bitching about that very thing DebbieCDC Nov 2015 #25

^^^ This ^^^ cantbeserious Nov 2015 #27

Exactly!!! Just keeping up buying food is outrageous. Crap way over priced. n/t RKP5637 Nov 2015 #34

and need to cut up their credit cards, the greedy little things! MisterP Nov 2015 #45

Robotics and automation aside Populist_Prole Nov 2015 #29

What does it have to do with Reagan and the 1980's? The2ndWheel Nov 2015 #32

Dip Shit Reagan Proposed A "Service Economy". It Was Code For Eventual "Task Rabbit" Jobs. TheMastersNemesis Nov 2015 #38

Robert is a prophet. kentuck Nov 2015 #39

He got fed up with Clinton's duplicitous horseshit. hifiguy Nov 2015 #48

Fewer workers, fewer benefits, fewer pensions = higher profit % for investors. But hey---Didn't WinkyDink Nov 2015 #43

No society can bear that kind of systemic insecurity. hifiguy Nov 2015 #46

No kidding - TBF Nov 2015 #47

The source of the majority of the world's problems is capitalism. hifiguy Nov 2015 #50

Yep, and I would also add to that religion. n/t RKP5637 Nov 2015 #54

Without question. hifiguy Nov 2015 #55

Should have outgrown by now? The2ndWheel Nov 2015 #57

Science was perking along rather nicely hifiguy Nov 2015 #58

Civilization is a resource concentration mechanism The2ndWheel Nov 2015 #60

Rational people would have discarded hifiguy Nov 2015 #61

Well said! mdbl Nov 2015 #65

There you go with the should's again The2ndWheel Dec 2015 #69

Oh, the Horse Collar, Horse Shoe, Hay were NOT major discoveries? or they just helped the poor... happyslug Nov 2015 #66

Roll back the Reagan De-Revolution. Dont call me Shirley Nov 2015 #64

Not slaves. Octafish Nov 2015 #68