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Re:Technological Unemployment: Much More Than You Wanted to ... by announcerman on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @04:00AM (#16418844)
As long as it isn't profitable to help the people left behind there won't be much done. Hopefully the people left behind will start making it unprofitable for the elites to ignore them. Probably won't happen though due to the vast amount of surveillance we're subjected to along with possible robotic police force in the future.
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Re:Technological Unemployment: Much More Than You Wanted to ... by crc32 on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @04:04AM (#16418869)
Yes. What is being suggested by the zeitgeist is that we are in a transition period; and that the scale of the problem is going to be so large that it cannot be ignored.

That is, if 75% of the population has no job in 2150 you have a huge ethical and societal problem.

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Re:Technological Unemployment: Much More Than You Wanted to ... by gt_ on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @04:12AM (#16418901)
This article is about unemployment rates, but wage drops in lower paying job sectors is already a huge ethical and societal problem. It can already not be ignored. It is, nonetheless, still being ignored.
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