[The Working Man]

Oh, I get it now... Because of these new technologies becoming available to the masses, we need to ‘remove’ as many of them, (the masses), as we can before this technology does become available.

So they introduced Obamacare...

[spokeshave]

He is Director of Engineering at Google.

Too bad he didn't get to do the Obamacare web site.

[ClearCase_guy]

I think there is a lot to that. If they can get the world population down to 100 million, and if disease and aging are practically eliminated, and if automation reduces the need for labor to practically nothing ... then the earth will become a Garden of Eden for the special few who remain.

That seems to be their hope. All of their policies are pointed in that direction.

For myself, I have a greater hope, and it does not involve immanentizing the eschaton.

[RipSawyer]

Possibly closer to the reality of it all than we can imagine.