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From: rstevew@armory.com (Richard Steven Walz)
Subject: Re: Does Automation Take Jobs Away?
Organization: The Armory
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 1994 06:32:17 GMT
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In article <31mjtt$um@tribune.usask.ca>, Henry Choy <choy@cs.usask.ca> wrote:
>Michael S. Miner (ac343@rgfn.epcc.edu) wrote:
>: Henry Choy (choy@cs.usask.ca) wrote:
>: : Richard Steven Walz (rstevew@armory.com) wrote:
>: : : Again you push me to categorize you...
>: : : <Scissors beat paper-Miner>   ...your equation
>: : : works.
>: : How does this prove anything about socialism? If the world turned
>: : socialist these people aren't going to guarantee you that they will
>: : learn how to read.
>: : --
>: :         Henry Choy                       "Math class is hard" - Barbie
>
>:   I think you may have just made the point behind all of this.  What
>: system guarantees anything?
>
>Maybe none, but we can think of the probabilities. For example a
>dictatorship is unlikely to produce wealthy people.
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Nonsense!!! All dictatorships DO in South America is create a wealthy
class!!! They did it in all of South East Asia as well! 
-RSW

>:Wonder how many would be starving if
>: we were still harvesting all produce by hand?
>
>One possibility is that there wouldn't be that many people because
>they'd starve to the extent that they build machines. It's like
>airplanes. People get sick enough of walking to fly.
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No, they discover how and then screw around with it and still walk about as
much, when not flying. Then they crop dust and poison their hand pickers!
-RSW

>Mind you if there were no birds, there wouldn't be so much incentive
>to fly. Also in the past, there wasn't such a drive to build
>agricultural implements because people thought they were quite well
>off with what they had.
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What changed their mind, La Choy??? You will argue with anyone about
anything and always fail to make any sense at all.
-RSW

>        Henry Choy                       "Math class is hard" - Barbie
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-RSW

