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In reply to the discussion: Within 10 Years Most Workers Will Be "Task Rabbits". R. Reich. [View all]hifiguy
(33,688 posts)58. Science was perking along rather nicely
thanks to the Greeks, before the Library at Alexandria and its irreplaceable treasure trove of knowledge were destroyed by xtians who regarded all sclence as literally diabolical. That, and the slavish desire to make the whole of the world serve an invisible skydaddy, set the west back more than a thousand years. There was no real recovery in Europe until Kepler, Copernicus, and Galileo, with Newton coming along shortly thereafter.
The profit motive, especially as currently constituted as the only motive that matters, need not have hijacked the entirety of the human race in the last 150-200 years.
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TheMastersNemesis
Nov 2015
OP
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
Tell me something I don't already realize, the wrath is also unnecessary.
appalachiablue
Nov 2015
#62
I look forward to the time robots become our overlords and give us a merciful death. nt
Xipe Totec
Nov 2015
#7
If robot labor is cheaper, then it follows that maintenance robots are cheaper than humans.
Xipe Totec
Nov 2015
#12
That's a question for our silicon based replacements. Carbon is so Cenozoic nt
Xipe Totec
Nov 2015
#14
How much has the cost of public education increased? How are pensions doing comparatively?
JonLeibowitz
Nov 2015
#31
Exactly!!! Just keeping up buying food is outrageous. Crap way over priced. n/t
RKP5637
Nov 2015
#34
Dip Shit Reagan Proposed A "Service Economy". It Was Code For Eventual "Task Rabbit" Jobs.
TheMastersNemesis
Nov 2015
#38
Fewer workers, fewer benefits, fewer pensions = higher profit % for investors. But hey---Didn't
WinkyDink
Nov 2015
#43