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With her unemployment benefits coming to a halt, Miriam Cintron is forced to make a difficult choice between health insurance and daily expenses. Signing into her unemployment benefits account last week, the New Yorker was horrified to see she hadn't received any money for three weeks, she says. What would the four-year cancer survivor do if she couldn't afford to pay her $650 monthly COBRA payment? Her health insurance helped pay for life-saving treatment before, so giving it up is not an option, she says. When Cintron was laid off from her job as a case worker at a homeless...

I hate my job. I wish I could live a comfortable life without having to work. Can the best and brightest Freeper minds devise a way of life in which nobody has to work, yet we are all living comfortably? There could be a technological solution to this problem.What if we created intelligent robots to do our work for us, while we all relax and enjoy life? The pace of advances in computer technology is increasing and a solution to the problem of having to go to work may occur in this century. My hope is that we will all...