XPost: alt.society.liberalism, alt.atheism, talk.politics.guns   
   From: dead@gone.com   
      
   On Sat, 18 May 2013 14:41:52 -0800, linuxgal wrote:   
      
   > Zepp wrote:   
   >> On Sat, 18 May 2013 08:28:07 -0800, linuxgal wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> >Robots are really going to kick people's ass.  They're not union.   
   >>> >Amazon already has Automated Material Handling Facilities that have   
   >>> >just two employees, a man and a dog.  The dog's job is to keep the   
   >>> >man from touching anything.  The man's job is to feed the dog.  But   
   >>> >they don't have robots smart enough to fix machines when they pop,   
   >>> >and they always do.  That was my strategy from the gitgo and it has   
   >>> >served me well, with just eight years left to go in my career.  Going   
   >>> >forward there will be a growing class of unemployed and unemployable   
   >>> >people competing for a limited number of dog-feeding positions.  I   
   >>> >won't whine about them at all, because I know the go-getters will   
   >>> >learn a technical trade.   
   >> So that leaves us with two courses of action: "reward people for not   
   >> working", or set up death camps.  What's your preference?   
   >   
   > False dichotomy.  Next week I'm going to the Philippines where people   
   > make ten dollars a day if they went to college, three to five dollars a   
   > day if they didn't, and some of the very unfortunately live in (literal,   
   > not allegorical) garbage dumps where the hazard is being buried alive in   
   > a trashslide while trying to salvage something to sell.  There are   
   > people there whose lives have been made immeasurably better by the   
   > existence of myself and my husband.   In that context, I have not the   
   > slightest twinge of guilt when I hear that someone in the United States   
   > has run out their 99 weeks of unemployment and now must dial back on the   
   > supersized orders of fries and give up one or two of their premium cable   
   > channels.  Seriously.   
      
   So for all it's wealth, America should strive for no better than the   
   garbage dumps outside Manila?   
      
   I see why you want to kill the notion that Americans are sovereign.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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