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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (245543)	2/25/2014 11:44:29 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542004

Think of all the well paid workers that design and build robots that build robots. Tax robots.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (245543)	2/25/2014 12:59:01 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542004

"Think of all the well paid workers that design and build and maintain these complicated machines. As soon as the robot gets installed in a production line it is almost in need of being replaced because of a new model or a robot upgrade. " It takes far less "manpower" to "design and build and maintain" robots than the jobs the robots replace. Orders of magnitude less. I think you're stuck thinking of car factory robots, but robots and software are taking over all sorts of jobs, including a lot of "brainpower" jobs. Maybe you missed it, but robots now play chess better than any human, and play Jeopardy better than any human. That Jeopardy software/robot is now diagnosing disease, as specialist doctors used to do. IBM is busy tweaking the software to do all sorts of other jobs. They may be coming for YOUR job. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for progress and robots and software taking over ALL our jobs, which I think is coming on very fast now. But, we're going to need some serious social re-engineering, what with first less and less, then no one working and no one paying taxes. We'll plug in some serious socialism at first, since that's what we know. You'll hate it, but you'll take it.