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Re:Eric Schmidt: How We Outrace the Robots by PakG1 on Thursday December 13, 2012 @08:42PM (#4919148)
If you want market economies to stay, market economies will figure out whether or not labor is a saleable commodity, no? I don't understand your point?
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Re:Eric Schmidt: How We Outrace the Robots by eli_gottlieb on Friday December 14, 2012 @04:37PM (#4923500)
Unsaleable here was not supposed to mean illegal or literally impossible to sell. I meant it as "very/increasingly difficult to sell at a profit".

Selling labor at a profit is becoming a problem, since it has those irritating built-in costs of food, shelter and health-care.

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