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To: DoodleBob

Why should those graduates boo? Don’t they understand that AI and robots will be paying the bulk of taxes so those graduates can live in comfort, what with mandated government supplied living costs, food and housing? They’ll be a bunch of freeloaders off of AI production.


3 posted on 05/12/2026 4:25:54 PM PDT by roadcat ( )
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To: roadcat

“Don’t they understand that AI and robots will be paying the bulk of taxes so those graduates can live in comfort...?”

In what world? I doubt very much the corporate owners of robotic production will syphon off profits to provide for redundant human beings.


7 posted on 05/12/2026 4:36:13 PM PDT by Miami Rebel (RE)
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To: roadcat

Have to disagree. A small handful of the superrich will benefit from the wealth as the humans will be off loaded as worthless. Trillionaires will soon refuse to pay for the socialist programs to feed and house the millions out of work. No such trillionaire will feel guilty about it.

Although some men (and women) on the auto assembly lines got other lines of work after losing their homes and dignity and life savings as automation and robotics took their work, it was still true that those were good old days with some jobs left, unlike the coming years now.

Workers in Detroit used to joke, grimly in the 1980s: “If they lay us all off so the robots make the cars we won’t have any money and the bosses will have to have the robots drive the cars.”
As we all know, the EV driverless autonomous vehicles are driving themselves.


14 posted on 05/12/2026 4:57:59 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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