> On Feb 15, 2016, at 10:04 AM, Tom Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> http://econospeak.blogspot.ca/2016/02/what-will-humans-do.html
> <http://econospeak.blogspot.ca/2016/02/what-will-humans-do.html>
> Is there a fixed Amount of Work to be done? Does Technology create more Jobs
> than it destroys? Does Supply create its own Demand? Is it not an infallible
> Maxim, That one Man's Labour creates Employment for another? The surprising
> answer to these questions -- or about them -- is that they are not
> stand-alone questions with stand-alone, indubitable answers. They function as
> elements in a sequence of questions, the purpose of which is to encourage the
> questioning of popular prejudices, not to impose the dogma of received wisdom.
>
> The answers to the various questions are not uniformly positive or negative.
> Thus the phrasing, "is it not an infallible Maxim," can only be approached
> with suspicion.
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And to pre-empt such suspicions which might get even more citizens to loathe
the toxic vectors of capitalism, they’ll need to set up, you guessed it, a
Federal Robotics Commission!
http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports2/2014/09/case-for-federal-robotics-commission
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