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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (134404)	6/30/2017 10:05:05 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Respond to of 219928

Human population can decline without a decline in living standards once automated robots are more integrated into the economy. It's earlier mechanization which has enabled the decline in population in industrialized nations. The disturbing influence which can upset this progress is a growing rejection of science and technology by undereducated booga-booga natives in the United States, Europe and other industrialized nations. Some of these Luddites have lost their own shops or jobs to Amazon and other online vendors, which is an understandably upseting part of creative destruction in our global economy, but others emotionally want to hold onto a past civilization just as many people in years past objected to sharing public roads with automobiles which required changes in their horse and carriage skills. Plagues in Europe aborted what was certain to be an industrial revolution in Europe in the early 1500s. Plague or widespread nuclwar war could unleaash the same economic hit today before robots are fully implemented as statistically 100% of some specialties become lost in an economy has become highly specialized. Implementation of robots make the economy's knowledge more documented and more difficult to disrupt or lose. It can't come too soon for me. I purchased nova lox on a poppy seed bagel this morning where the business displayed the details of each order visible to employees and customers on a screen. The young woman preparing the orders appeared to have a reading dyslexia disorder similar to Donald Trump as she initially reached for and sliced a blueberry bagel, then after correcting her error put plain cream cheese on the toasted poppy seed bagel and had to start over yet again finally applying the correct blueberry. A more competent worker was in charge of loading the additional ingredients on each order. I could easily see her replaced by a versatile culinary robot. I can see her becoming "successful" if her father leaves her $200 million like Donald Trump's father left him. The inheritence certainly saved Donald from a career selling fake watches in Times Square.