From: leszek.karlik@gmail.com   
      
   On Mon, 09 Jan 2017 15:19:16 +0100, Ingo Siekmann    
   wrote:   
      
   [...]   
   > I am not sure if this will work out - but one should consider that a   
   > world "where nobody must work" is a very old dream...   
   > The alternative could be something like the "Hunger Games" - a rich   
   > neo-feudal aristocracy ruling over poor commoners. This would lead to   
   > stagnation. To work, capitalism needs many consumers who buy stuff. If   
   > the consumers have no money to spend, the rich will not sell stuff to   
   > anybody and become poorer within short time.   
      
   Well, if the rich control automated means of production they don't really   
   need the poor - and the poor are a significant security risk.   
      
   Luckily for the rich, they will also control automated means of security   
   and supression (a robot may be much more effective for riot control than   
   a human policeman who may decide to side with the rioters). In the long   
   run, this may lead to extermination of the poor.   
      
   See: "Exterminism" https://www.jacobinmag.com/2011/12/four-futures/   
      
   --   
   Leszek 'Leslie' Karlik   
   http://leslie.hell.pl/   
      
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