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From: rstevew@armory.com (Richard Steven Walz)
Subject: Re: Does Automation Take Jobs Away?
Organization: The Armory
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 1994 15:12:43 GMT
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In article <30uoem$53n@tribune.usask.ca>, Henry Choy <choy@cs.usask.ca> wrote:
>Richard Steven Walz (rstevew@armory.com) wrote:
>: >> In a socialist system, the extra profit can be given to the workers,
>: >> and the workers can have shorter work-weeks.
>: >
>: >Hey, sounds like Welfare! 
>: >Chris Leger (blah@cmu.edu)
>: >Carnegie Mellon University
>: -----------------------------------
>: Nope, welfare is what a capitalist system has to give their unemployed
>: workers to keep them from eating the rich!
>
>How cynical! The rich can't get richer without employees. Hey, the
>world isn't totally automatic...yet. The rich have to work to stay
>rich, and there are a lot of wannabes who are willing to reduce those
>unemployment figures. They appear to be hibernating. Where's the robot
>that can clean my floor! Hey!
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"The rich have to work to stay rich,"... Where did you get that, Henry?
The vast amount of "earned" wealth is from interest and investment and
done so automatically by people paid to do the leg-work for one guy who
sits home and parties. The vast amount of actual product made is made by
workers earning less than a quarter of the out the door cost of the
product, BEFORE retail!!! That's coolie labor feeding drones, Henry!!!

>        Henry Choy                       "Math class is hard" - Barbie
>e-mail: choy@cs.usask.ca                  I AGREE!
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Even programmers are drones, Henry, just the buffer group against complete
collapse and riot. If you found out the truth, Henry, as to how much of
what you make is spent by rich drones, Henry, I doubt you could stand it!
But you are part of the class that has been taught not to make waves
because you believed the lie that "Someday you too may be wealthy!" If
Americans understood how few of them will join the ranks of the wealthy in
their lifetime, they would have a communism tomorrow!!! You're a bit better
off, though, Henry. At least your cage has medical. Ours doesn't!
-Steve Walz   rstevew@armory.com

