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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: JohnM who wrote (197694)8/19/2012 9:30:30 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (2) of 541791
 
Here is the liberal theory:

As mechanization relieves man from daily drudgery, then mankind can persue a more noble and full life, with the spare time. But that requires some heavy out of the box thinking, whereby society gets pretty involved in dividing up the spoils.

And we are rapidly going in the other direction of extreme income inequality, as I know you notice. Where on family has more wealth than the bottom 100 million people.

So the only way to take advantage of robots, and not have them be a problem, is by designing a society with a large middle class. The Scandinavian's are doing it. It will start with very high taxes on the rich. Back to the Eisenhower days.

<<This NYTimes' article strikes me as terribly important. I had no idea the use of robotic workers had proceeded this far. How close are we to replacing a great many workers by robots? And, if so, what kind of economy will that produce? And what happens with the unemployed?
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