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Re:How Uber’s Autonomous Cars Will Reshape the Economy by 2025 by divegeek on Sunday January 25, 2015 @01:20PM (#8943673)
The problem isn't the change. History has shown time and again that we can deal with that. The problem is the rate of change. The industrial revolution took generations to really complete, and even so it was kind of rough in places. These changes are coming much, much faster.

We need to find something between accepting mass poverty and creating a total welfare state which, even if it works economically, will be a disaster for human happiness. People need to feel productive, useful and self-reliant. What that is, I don't know.

I'm encouraging my kids to become technocrats, like me.

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Re:How Uber’s Autonomous Cars Will Reshape the Economy by 2025 by FrankenPC on Monday January 26, 2015 @12:39PM (#8948318)
"I'm encouraging my kids to become technocrats, like me."

Same here. My family is covered. But the hard reality of unemployment still bothers me. I feel that if we were TRULY an advanced society, we would have already solved this problem. It's a problem. And problems are solvable. We just have to want to solve it.

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