[Cronos]

are you a property owner - reduce my apartment rent to $10 per month

The same thing could be said about German companies like BMW relocating to the US where workers are cheaper than German workers. Oh and Japanese are doing so to and are even replacing labour with robots, so I guess this becomes an Asimov type situation

[ninenot]

Both your points are noted in the PCRoberts thread-header. So what?

[XBob]

170 - "replacing labour with robots, so I guess this becomes an Asimov type situation"

The Reagan tarriff barriers caused the japense to build large factories here. the cost of building cars in germany caused the germans to build tiny factories here.

The only exports derived from this are a few thousand BMW specialty vehicles. The rest are designed to become more competitive in the American market against our own manufacturers.

The robots the japanese are using and the robots we are using were designed and built in japan.

"I Robot" may come true.

Azimov had tremendous vision.