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To: elmatador who wrote (140149)	3/20/2018 10:36:29 AM
From: stsimon	3 Recommendations Recommended By bart13 Cogito Ergo Sum louel Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 220242

Certainly well intentioned people desiring to help refugees have introduced changes in multiple societies that are putting them under stress. We now see the backlash in political movements in Europe and elsewhere. In the United States we used to put crazy people into Insane Asylums. In the 1960's people discovered how medieval those places were and freed them all into society, with the idea that public resources would be provided for their treatment. No resources were made available so now we just lock them up and call them criminals. The taxpayer still pays but feels better about it. Odd. As robot culture accelerates and all wealth goes to capital with virtually none to labor, we shall then see the feces hitting the fan. Will there be mass sterilization to reduce unneeded humans or just the traditional genocides?

To: elmatador who wrote (140149)	3/21/2018 12:48:57 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	2 Recommendations Recommended By Cogito Ergo Sum Snowshoe Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 220242

Tecnology is changing faster. We're in Palm Desert (Palm Springs) with a lot of Canadian snowbirds, but we're here for dental care with Monterey Dental. A recently retired dentist took note of new technology to make dental crowns and used his retirement savings from selling his prior practice to buy the latest machines - 3D wand scanning of your teeth takes several minutes creating a proposed dental crown which can be modified. This is then milled from a block zirconia or lithium disilicate in a machine the size of a microwave oven. When finished in less than 10 minutes it is placed in one of two kilns also microwave size. Zirconia is sintered with infra-red to an unbelievable 2,900 F and Lithium disilicate to 1,600 F and cooled within 10 minutes and the dental crown is installed. This costs $750 and takes a couple of hours, compared with 2 visits over a week long period and typically $1,650 at most Los Angeles dentists. By charging this price they're always busy to amortize the equiptment cost and he sold the practice to one of the best young dentists - earning himself a second retirement nest egg. Others charge $1,200, or far more, for this process by selling the convenience and time savings. But this price drives more business which is more profitable. Between the two of us, a short vacation in the desert saved us $2,700 and a lot of unnessecary appointments and time. These were all once handcrafted by dentists or skilled dental technicians, and now those people are replaced by machines which are a marvel to watch in action. The result flawless. When assessing who would lose jobs to automation, I would not have guessed dentists - but I kmow now why they're increasingly under financial pressure, introducing new fees which simply drives the shift to this new process faster.