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Re:What the Fourth Industrial Revolution Looks Like by TeMPOraL on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @12:27PM (#9375396)
A closed market system that will likely get smaller in time, or even eventually devoid of humans altogether. It's not hard to imagine that at some point the feedback loop will close over the automated economy and it will be able to function on its own, without any input from humans.
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Re:What the Fourth Industrial Revolution Looks Like by 6d0debc071 on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @12:47PM (#9375559)
Indeed, one seemingly plausible outcome is that the 1% starts complaining about the .1% . That the trend is uncapped given sufficient production multiplication ability... until one person ends up with a robot army and ownership over everything.

We won't get there overnight, but how far we might get towards that extreme is worrying.

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