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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (145070)

8/14/2014 7:11:52 PM

From: koan

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Exactly, so what that means is we need a complete social paradigm shift based on finite resources, modern technology and so a redistribution of wealth.

We did that when we started this country with our constitution.

Now we need to do it again based on modern realities.

The problem of course, is that you and 10 other people in the world understand that concept and we need a few more people who can wrap their minds around such things.

"Don't you see that we have robots now to push that guy up the hill in the wheel chair?"

That guy can't afford either a wheelchair or a robot without government assistance, and, since robots don't pay taxes, the government can't afford it, either. The person whom the robot replaced is now also without a job, and on unemployment (for a while) and food stamps. That leaves us with a few rich people being pushed by robots, and a whole bunch of po folk living in Belly Rave. en.wikipedia.org
Maybe we should have people push people.

However, I believe the cartoon refers to SS, where there were many workers/recipient early on, and not so many now. Nothing that can't be resolved by removing the taxable earnings cap, and/or taxing robots and their employers.

"primitive economics is out dated" because it requires