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To: Steely Tom

I think in a jobless society, there will be a push for a guaranteed living wage. This will happen out of political as well as true necessity because nature abhores a vacuum. There is already talk of this in Switzerland. The bad side is that the saying, “idle hands are the Devil’s Workshop” so there will be more opportunity for troublemaking.


9 posted on 01/29/2014 8:20:34 PM PST by Nowhere Man (Mom I miss you! (8-20-1938 to 11-18-2013) Cancer sucks)
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To: Nowhere Man
The bad side is that the saying, “idle hands are the Devil’s Workshop” so there will be more opportunity for troublemaking.

You see the results of this throughout Europe......Football hooliganism is rampant.

Why do people join "firms"? It's a source of excitement, the fighting is a source of adrenaline for those who have nothing else going on in their lives.

One day a leader is going to figure out how to channel that for their own ends, look at the ranks of the Nazi Brownshirts in the late 20s/early 30s.

13 posted on 01/29/2014 8:25:01 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Nowhere Man

It will be much like Ancient Rome or the South before the Civil War, except this time free men will be in competition for work with robots instead of slaves.

That sure ends well.


31 posted on 01/30/2014 2:19:49 AM PST by Age of Reason
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