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  • #2


    First thing I thought of.
    ~ Russell ("MelMak")

    "[Sing] and [make] melody in your heart to the Lord." -- Ephesians 5:19b

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    • #3
      It's called "raise the minimum wage".
      When I Survey....

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      • #4
        The most common solution being discussed is a UBI. While that seems politically impossible in the US, I imagine things might change if unemployment were to ramp out of control.

        I'm quite pessimistic about how this will play out for society. I'm a professional driver and for that reason alone I support banning self driving vehicles.
        "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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        • #5
          I'll be one of the tech lords with my own army of robots, I dunno about the rest of you.

          I recommend getting on my good side now while it counts.
          "As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths." Isaiah 3:12

          There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Darth Executor View Post
            I'll be one of the tech lords with my own army of robots, I dunno about the rest of you.

            I recommend getting on my good side now while it counts.
            Such an edgelord.
            "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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            • #7
              Originally posted by The Melody Maker View Post


              First thing I thought of.
              Metal Blade best weapon.
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              • #8
                Originally posted by Darth Executor View Post
                I'll be one of the tech lords with my own army of robots, I dunno about the rest of you.

                I recommend getting on my good side now while it counts.
                Loading up on a bunch of Rock'em Sock'em Robots probably doesn't count



                I'm always still in trouble again

                "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
                "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
                "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post
                  I'm a professional driver and for that reason alone I support banning self driving vehicles.
                  I had considered that, but then I wonder, can you really ban something that makes a business more efficient and profitable? And where do we go after that? Start banning all automation and return to the days when everything was assembled by hand? Is that really practical, or even desirable?
                  Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
                  But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
                  Than a fool in the eyes of God


                  From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post
                    The most common solution being discussed is a UBI. While that seems politically impossible in the US, I imagine things might change if unemployment were to ramp out of control.

                    I'm quite pessimistic about how this will play out for society. I'm a professional driver and for that reason alone I support banning self driving vehicles.
                    https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-welfare-state
                    Last edited by firstfloor; 03-11-2018, 05:12 AM.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by The Melody Maker View Post


                      First thing I thought of.
                      "Super fighting robot, Mega Man!"

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                      • #12
                        How eerily similiar this sounds. It sounds like the communist manifesto.
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                        • #13
                          People have been complaining about automation taking their jobs since the industrial revolution, yet we still find new jobs for people. Computers were going to take away jobs, yet now almost every job involves people USING computers instead of being replaced by them. Jobs will change but there will always be jobs.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Sparko View Post
                            People have been complaining about automation taking their jobs since the industrial revolution, yet we still find new jobs for people. Computers were going to take away jobs, yet now almost every job involves people USING computers instead of being replaced by them. Jobs will change but there will always be jobs.
                            This analysis is too simplistic. The point of automation is to reduce the total number of jobs. You may have one computer operator to make up for six jobs lost elsewhere.
                            "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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                            • #15
                              yeah the idiotic comparisons with the industrial revolution are getting tiresome. we already have significant % of the population doing subsidized BS jobs. Eventually the dam is gonna break.
                              "As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths." Isaiah 3:12

                              There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt.

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