From: Matt Mahoney (matmahoney@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Apr 18 2008 - 12:11:41 MDT
--- mwaser@cox.net wrote:
> > How is it that wild tech advances leave people
> > working harder and for less pay? Because the
> > extra value is being siphoned off for the
> > employers. The logical end, as Bill Joy pointed
> > out, is that the boss gets what he wants from the
> > machines and the rest of humanity is expendable.
>
> True, but it's not a foregone conclusion. Hopefully you've read Manna by
> Marshall Brain (http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm). Anyone who hasn't on
> this list needs to go do so immediately.
I dunno. It seemed like a good idea to Karl Marx too...
-- Matt Mahoney, matmahoney@yahoo.com
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