RE: Authoritarianism on the rise?
January 28, 2016 at 10:10 pm
(This post was last modified: January 28, 2016 at 10:18 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 28, 2016 at 9:12 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(January 28, 2016 at 8:06 am)Dystopia Wrote: And the bloody neo-liberal policies that produce unemployment and poor living conditions (at least in southern Europe it is)
Don't you know that unemployment rates will increase around the world and in all segments of society? All kinds of jobs will be automated and out-sourced to robots. For instance, a Japanese country has automated a farm to grow 30,000 heads of lettuce a day without any human involvement. The good news is that lettuce will be cheap but the bad news is that only a handful of people will make any money off of it. So who's going to buy consumer goods and services? The world's economy will collapse and there will be a global revolution.
Um........that lettuce isn't cheap at all. You don't go vertical hydro low pesticide if you plan on selling it cheap. This group plans to seize a -very- lucrative market. The system helps them do -that-...it doesn't help them grow lettuce cheaply. If there's going to be a global meltdown it isn't on account of this. If this is what cheap lettuce looks like, then field labor is safe for the forseable future.
(I deeply and truly wish it were otherwise, btw. You know, if a global economic meltdown included the scenario in which food was so cheap no one could be bothered to pay a dime worth anything to another person for it.....that would have to be an argument -in favor- of meltdown. A pleasant unintended side effect.)
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