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Fmr Facebook executive: Society will COLLAPSE within 30 years as robots put half out of work
The Sun ^ | August 4, 2017 | Jasper Hamill

Posted on 08/04/2017 9:41:47 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: rightwingcrazy

A socialist society institutionalizes a widely split two class system with only the government clerks being between.


61 posted on 08/04/2017 11:16:19 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I would suspect Mr. Martinez has other problems besides fear of the end of the world due to robots. Sounds like he has a severe case of anti-social behavior.

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So, which is going to end the world first? Robot take over or global climate change leading to all land being flooded or global change leading to all the land being frozen?


62 posted on 08/04/2017 11:16:49 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: cradle of freedom
Working with your hands is for stupid people?

Not necessarily, a lot of jobs involving working with your hands do take a lot of skill and training. But there are a lot of jobs that didn't exactly require a lot of thinking, and those are the jobs that are being replaced.

63 posted on 08/04/2017 11:21:53 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: arthurus
Just as society “collapsed” in the 17-1800s in England as it industrialized.

If anything, industrialization gave opportunities to the lower classes to make a living. It still required a lot of manpower in those days.

64 posted on 08/04/2017 11:23:46 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: lee martell

For a lot of reasons, I believe the Lord will not wait that long.

I remember as a kid in the 60’s I imagined a utopia where people didn’t have to work at all to get a “living” wage. It would mean people could enjoy life and just work to make any extra money if they wanted more stuff.

Then I realized a few years ago that we have entered that utopia. People that get that Living wage for free are called Welfare Recipients, and they live off welfare, section 8, snap, etc.

It is not utopia.

And if we end up in a world where people get enough to live, but can not be productive, it will be a hell on earth. Though it will seem great at first. Kinda like that 21 year old I saw walk into a liquor store and say, “I’ve died and gone to heaven.”

No. Not really.


65 posted on 08/04/2017 11:24:10 AM PDT by robroys woman
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To: rightwingcrazy

Check out the real Rats of NIMH. While the researcher attributed the decline to many things, the one constant was no material lack.

Utopia kills!


66 posted on 08/04/2017 11:34:13 AM PDT by antidisestablishment ( We few, we happy few, we basket of deplorables)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s not the robots that will rule the world, it’s the ones who build (and program) the robots.

The same human greed will still be prevalent, just using nearly invincible robots as their preferred weapon to complete hitler’s quest to take over the world.

So long as greed, laziness, and dumbed down snowflakes are grown and groomed, worker output (thus jobs) will falter. Some one has to do the work, build the cars, etc...it’s will be robots (aka computers with mobility and weapons).


67 posted on 08/04/2017 11:37:29 AM PDT by FrankR
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To: cradle of freedom
First said by Michelangelo while suffering from a terrific back ache.
68 posted on 08/04/2017 11:54:15 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: lee martell

The ultimate communism resolve.


69 posted on 08/04/2017 11:56:20 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: FrankR

We have “robots” at the Duracell plant where I work. But they are really just automatic crane arms. And they break down or malfunction and so two electricians go have a look. When the “robot” finishes moving battery trays to a pallet and the pallet is full then an old fashioned forklift comes along to move it to the warehouse. All the digital systems, sensors, alarms, and modern stuff breaks down. Murphy’s law still applies.


70 posted on 08/04/2017 11:58:24 AM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a Russian AK-47 and a French bikini.)
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To: antidisestablishment

Looks like a good pick for my young’ns. Thanks!


71 posted on 08/04/2017 12:10:39 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (rightwingcrazy)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Someone’s watched way too many dystopian movies.


72 posted on 08/04/2017 12:10:49 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: a fool in paradise


Silence! It is time to put the Humans to death!
73 posted on 08/04/2017 12:14:30 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: dfwgator

“Smart people will always have jobs.”

Uh ? Seems that has been proven wrong by Mr.Gates and his like ‘importing brains’ from abroad already...No??

My favorite example to my son was telling him bout going to the architects office for a project and seeing ‘back room’ full of youngsters producing reams of paper prints outs etc etc ...TODAY, no such rooms full of employed young ones...
All done by Mr.Puter now, and he demands nuttin much....


74 posted on 08/04/2017 12:29:08 PM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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To: litehaus
Paralegal was gonna be a great career path for the future, but now computers can be programmed to scan through reams and reams of old cases to find information that attorneys need to plead cases.
75 posted on 08/04/2017 5:06:19 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: dfwgator

I have an idea: let’s take a large portion of society that accounts for 90% of all crime and criminal activity, give them ample amounts of drugs, little or no actual education, make sure that they have completely abandoned western religion and western values, break up the concept of the nuclear family completely, and then - yank the only jobs they qualify for right out from under them.

Most of these steps are already completed.

awesome fun times ahead.


76 posted on 08/04/2017 8:06:23 PM PDT by Noamie
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To: Noamie

“Most of these steps are already completed.
awesome fun times ahead.”

See St.Louis, Chicago,Baltimore,Detroit etc etc etc All democrat run for decades, all ready to explode the first week the “food Stamp” computer goes down....


77 posted on 08/05/2017 7:30:23 AM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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To: Noamie

Exactly. This is what has me sweating. They go from at least having *something* semi-productive to do and spending *some* of their time not fighting or f*cking to being a 100% drain whose full-time, lifelong ‘career’ is to be trouble.

Keep that up long enough and we’re going to have to choose between culling them like mad dogs, walling ourselves in (AKA gated communities) or something like The Purge for real.


78 posted on 09/12/2017 6:03:03 PM PDT by ALongRoadAhead
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