What is with refusing to admit slavery is wrong?

[Drich]

Star trek was always at best a Dream like in it's vision of the future. If infact we can develop our robotics to the point where they can replace all slave labor, then in essence the robots become our slaves. and the current unskilled work force gets bumped up with nothing to do. except get retrained and flood the market above them and so on.

The beautiful part is that there's no market above. No matter what kind of skill you have, it's of no worth - everything is taken care by machines.
People are left with lives to live - fun to have - hobbies to do.

You mean like in Greece and Italy where lazy bums are paid to do nothing. seems to be working very well for them. The whole country of Greece has now become the lazy bum of the EU and demands to be paid for not working/producing.

... yes... being from Portugal, the P in PIGS... yes!
Portugal
Italy
Greece
Spain

Get money to sit on your ass.

There used to be a subsidy for people who owned fields - good fields with good soil for planting stuff - that subsidy was given for a decade or more, for the express purpose of leaving the fields unplanted, uncared for, unproductive. Something to do with european quotas for production of certain  agricultural products, I think. If a given country produces more than it should, that country must pay a fine to the EU... if that sounds nonsensical to you, is because it is! So, the country, in an effort not to pay any such fines, paid a subsidy to field owners so they wouldn't plant. It seems to make some economic sense, but small countries with small quotas, but large swaths of naturally productive land, waste money and land on such schemes, just so larger countries can keep their quotas and flood the market with crap.
A scheme clearly devised to keep PIGS as PIGS and make them even bigger PIGS, while the others keep growing and exporting goods... which are not so good anymore.
There used to be a time when "made in Germany" meant some damn good quality stuff... now, it's LIDL and ALDI cheap crap.

It depends on their level of consciencousness.

The trick is to build them and develop them just enough to do their jobs.... and keep doing them indefinitely.

They are buying American debt because it is backed by American gold. If we default they empty fort knox. There are a lot of rumors that on Obama's watch that is exactly what has happened.

What? gold?
Gold is no longer backing anything... it was because the monetary system is backed by nothing that we had the 2008 crash. And will keep having crashes, until politicians and economists reinstate the requirement that all economical goods be backed by material goods.
Or money looses value altogether because goods are inexpensive.

Only if the return exceeds available profits now and in the future. If China remain communist state then they will have no reason to leave.

If we can't make it the next 10 years then 'time' become irrelevant.

We'll see what comes out of that hole... Until then, business as usual.

I was going to pick nits with you over a few things, but over all I agree with everything you said. Mark this day down someone!