Re:Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up for Sale in Robotics Retreat
by tamana on Friday March 18, 2016 @02:23AM
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Congratulations, you live in a country where a few wealthy shareholders are capable of extracting value from the large majority of laborers. I guess that makes you great?
Re:Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up for Sale in Robotics Retreat
by CamperBob2 on Friday March 18, 2016 @03:47PM
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No, but like just about everyone else in the US, I have more to lose from a class war than I would ever stand to gain.
Re:Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up for Sale in Robotics Retreat
by koide on Saturday March 19, 2016 @02:22AM
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You are measuring the country over what the successful, rich people can do or have. What about the vast majority of the population?
Re:Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up for Sale in Robotics Retreat
by CamperBob2 on Sunday March 20, 2016 @01:03AM
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They're too busy playing Minecraft and yakking over Skype to care.
More seriously, it's pretty clear by this point that a rising tide lifts all boats, even under conditions of inequitable income distribution. I don't see anyone from the US trying to break into Cuba or Venezuela, do you?
I responded by pointing out that Google was formed here, in the USA. The US is a country in which those values don't generally prevail and -- in any event -- where corporations are not responsible for upholding them.
I asked, more or less rhetorically, if there was perhaps a reason for that.
The OP responded by citing some counterexamples that more or less agree with my point, which I thought was an interesting way to argue. Skype was purchased by Microsoft (and let's not talk about Nokia, right?), while the founder of Mojang is living like a king of old Arabia in one of the most expensive homes ever sold in the US. We're apparently doing something right that those other countries are not.