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Originally Posted by The God Hypothesis
Good point, if everything is automated then do we just go to socialism and few work?
I'm not smart enough to wrap my mind around how this would work.
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Read "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us" by Bill Joy for a worrisome take on how the future might play out and The Age of Spiritual Machines or The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil for a more hopeful take.
FWIW, your question is one raised by Kaczynski in his manifesto
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"When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”--Abraham Lincoln
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