Re:Baidu’s self-driving cars begin public test in Wuzhen, China
by Zigurd on Thursday November 17, 2016 @12:03PM
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I'd guess you got downvoted because that's irrelevant. The benefits come in the form of fewer road deaths, which is potentially as significant as curing malaria, which only in the abstract benefits the people you are talking about, but it nevertheless does benefit them.
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Re:Baidu’s self-driving cars begin public test in Wuzhen, China
by ThomPete on Thursday November 17, 2016 @12:09PM
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Did you read the parent I am replying too?
How is road safety relevant to a discussion about zero sum games?
Re:Baidu’s self-driving cars begin public test in Wuzhen, China
by Zigurd on Thursday November 17, 2016 @12:12PM
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For one, it makes it a non-zero-sum game.
Re:Baidu’s self-driving cars begin public test in Wuzhen, China
by ThomPete on Thursday November 17, 2016 @12:20PM
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The claim was that we will all benefit. So I am asking how is that benefitting those who loos their jobs.
Sure you can cherry pick your perspective and make OPs statement true, but whats the point of that.
Re:Baidu’s self-driving cars begin public test in Wuzhen, China
by hx87 on Thursday November 17, 2016 @12:32PM
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> So I am asking how is that benefitting those who loos their jobs.
They get cheaper and better self-driving cars. I know that's not nearly enough to compensate for lost income and self-worth. The rest of society has easily enough gains to compensate them property, but because of outdated ideas about work, worth and capitalism we haven't done so.
Re:Baidu’s self-driving cars begin public test in Wuzhen, China
by ThomPete on Thursday November 17, 2016 @12:34PM
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But since they don't have a job they can't buy them but yeah.
Re:Baidu’s self-driving cars begin public test in Wuzhen, China
by Zigurd on Thursday November 17, 2016 @12:32PM
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About a million people die on the roads each year. Even though the US has a relatively low rate of road fatalities, there are still tens of thousands of people killed each year and hundreds of thousands injured on the roads. Even the poor and jobless benefit from not getting mangled in a car wreck or run down while cycling, and the health care money saved can go to directly aid them.