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From: rstevew@armory.com (Richard Steven Walz)
Subject: Re: Does Automation Take Jobs Away?
Organization: The Armory
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 21:49:48 GMT
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References: <Ct8z84.np1@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> <30kh7j$5ev@ecom2.ecn.bgu.edu> <30s4ne$3ro@tribune.usask.ca> <mwilson.775136657@ncratl>
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In article <mwilson.775136657@ncratl>,
Mark O. Wilson <mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM> wrote:
>In <30s4ne$3ro@tribune.usask.ca> choy@cs.usask.ca (Henry Choy) writes:
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>|Mark A. Morrell (mgmam@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu) wrote:
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>|: Remember, if the robots take away all the jobs, then nobody will be able
>|: to buy what the robots are making.
>
>|Well, if you want to talk about extremes, you'll be talking about a
>|scenario where all your needs are available like the Garden of Eden.
>
>If robots did 100% of the work, everything would be free.
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ONLY if you took them away from the rich who own them, or else shoot the
rich!
-Steve

>Mob rule isn't any prettier merely because the mob calls itself a government
>It ain't charity if you are using someone else's money.
>Wilson's theory of relativity: If you go back far enough, we're all related.
>Mark.O.Wilson@AtlantaGA.NCR.com
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Democracy is just ritualized mob rule.
-Steve Walz   rstevew@armory.com

