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Discussion on: Why are you NOT worried about the robot apocalypse?

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Dian Fay

Futurists were predicting shorter and shorter workweeks all through the 20th century. Instead we've kept working the same hours while technology has enabled ever-increasing productivity. Wages (in the US) have basically stagnated since the 1970s, and our legal minimum wage isn't even enough to live on -- companies like Wal-Mart and McDonald's are subsidized by their employees going on welfare just to survive.

We were all supposed to have flying cars and robot butlers by now!

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rhymes • Edited

That's because we should have built robots to manage the 1%'s greed :-D

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aurel kurtula

That's true.

Take that as my own wishful thinking