[Willie Green]

until you formulate a rationale of your own on how we will deal with surplus workers in a high tech world. -- Can you even address the problem?

What problem?
Do you mean your absurd contention that "it becomes cheaper to automate technology than to feed, clothe, & house the slaves."???
No tpaine, I will NOT address that "problem".
As usual, you've merely formulated an extremist fringe scenario that isn't gonna happen in the real world.
I'm not gonna waste my time with you by "debating" such silliness.

Whatever technology becomes so cheap to put slaves out of work merely increases the portion of the workforce that's in unemployed poverty, further dragging down the ones who are still managing to eek out a living. (Unless, of course, they starve to death first.)

[tpaine]

tpaine:
It is rapidly becoming cheaper to automate technology than to feed, clothe, & house slaves.
Can you formulate a rationale of your own on how we will deal with surplus workers in a high tech world?

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Whatever technology becomes so cheap to put slaves out of work merely increases the portion of the workforce that's in unemployed poverty, further dragging down the ones who are still managing to eek out a living.
(Unless, of course, they starve to death first.)
292 -willy-

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You're belaboring the obvious willy, in place of offering up your brilliant solution..

Could it be there is no solution? That Williams is right in writing:

"These are signs of a healthy economy, where businesses start up, fail, downsize and upsize, and workers are fired and workers are hired all in the process of adapting to changing technological, economic and global conditions. Societies become richer when this process is allowed to occur. Indeed, because our nation has a history of allowing this process to occur goes a long way toward explaining why we are richer than the rest of the world.

Those Americans calling for government restrictions that would deny companies and ultimately consumers to benefit from cheaper methods of production are asking us to accept lower wealth in order to protect special interests.

Of course, they don't cloak their agenda that way. It's always "national security," "level playing fields" and "protecting jobs". Don't fall for it -- we'll all become losers."