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HughBeaumont

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7. The Hawk said it best:

Mon Apr 18, 2016, 09:40 AM

Apr 2016

If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality.

Forget about jobs - the problem is and will always be distribution. Their precious capitalism cannot continue without our income to prop up their businesses, and their playing stupid to this fact will only exacerbate the problem. Tethering health and economic success to how gainfully one is employed . . . anyone notice how this isn't a problem for the wealthy?

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