What should we be worried about?

Re:What should we be worried about? by coldtea on Sunday May 05, 2013 @04:17PM (#5659588)

>So raise the IQ (didn't the western world "invent" this notion?) of a population so they can be replaced by machines (after all, what use does a government have for highly intelligent people but to put them to work)?

Em, the government is not (necessarily) some "enemy". The government is the representatives of the people and the country. So the use the government has for "highly intelligent people" is to strengthen the country.

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Re:What should we be worried about? by cinquemb on Sunday May 05, 2013 @04:25PM (#5659612)

I didn't mean for that to come across as the government as an "enemy" (I didn't mention an enemy of any sort).

>So the use the government has for "highly intelligent people" is to strengthen the country.

You wouldn't call that work (the effort applied to produce a deliverable or accomplish a task, which in this case is whatever it takes to "strengthen the country")?

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Re:What should we be worried about? by coldtea on Sunday May 05, 2013 @06:15PM (#5659964)

Well, if you put it that way, yes. But then again, what is NOT work?

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