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Comment Re:In the eye of the beholder... (Score 3, Insightful) 61

You'd be correct, or at least entirely correct without glossing over a number of major problems, if we had some kind of Star Trek economy where everyone benefited from improvements to productivity. Unfortunately, instead we have late-stage capitalism where we've had a 50-year run of the ownership class taking all the benefit from technological advancement and everyone else playing musical chairs with the jobs that the demand from a withering middle class can still sustain. And these robots are going to take a lot more chairs out of play rather quickly.

If Japan becomes an empire through automation, it will be a dystopia straight out of '80s cyberpunk with widespread poverty and one giant neo-zaibatsu that owns everything.

Comment Re:He is ignoring reality (Score 1) 177

This. If he wasn't hilariously wrong, we'd either have a 24-hour work week right now or most people would be making about 40% more money. Instead, workers have seen no gains from the last 50 years of productivity improvements and the ownership class collectively has 40% more money in their Scrooge McDuck vaults.

Comment Re:Not gonna read it, but ... (Score 2) 35

Haha this! It's more of a very slight warming than a roasting. It made no attempts at any of the top targets:

- Steve Ballmer throwing a chair, sweating profusely, yelling "Developers!" dozens of times in a row
- Bill Gates being in charge of peak-evil Microsoft, posing for the "sexy photo," maybe even his affairs with employees...
- Satya Nadella being in charge of wannabe-Google Surveillance Capitalism Microsoft that preloads Windows with spyware & adware like an early-2000s file sharing app. Bonus points for contrasting with Ballmer's chair-throwing hatred for Google.

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