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0 pointstenpies3y ago0 comments

It's quite odd that these "civilized societies" then have to rely on importing the best and brightest young people from "uncivilized" societies to keep their "civilized society" from suffering a demographic collapse.

Almost makes one think that they're not quite civilized, they just put economics above all and rely on exploiting other nations to prop the whole thing up.

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klipt3y ago

It seems to be universal throughout history, that the existence of "civilized" upper classes has always depended on large "uncivilized" underclasses who do most of the hard work.

JoeAltmaier3y ago

That's Marxism in a nutshell - capitalism requires a slave labor class to prop it up.

We're supposed to be entering an age of automation. But now that the yoke of labor may be lifted from our shoulders finally, all anybody can talk about is "Full Employment".

hirvi743y ago

> We're supposed to be entering an age of automation

I like your usage of "supposed." I feel like I have been seeing "Automation will replace <insert entity> in <made-up unit of time>" for the past 15 years or more.

I can't even get Siri to work 95% of the time let alone have her and her virtual brethren overtake society. I do not doubt it's possible one day, but assuming I am average, I have about 40 or so years left on this planet, and I doubt I will see it in that time.

I'm not trying to discredit the wonder innovations and milestones we have achieved so far, but it's the new "flying cars" to me.

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