Why do people say we need more immigrants? Robots are the future.

[HughBeaumont]

78. This promises to shrink demand faster than a snowball in an oven.

"Hey, let's move into this awesome future where robots do all the work and humans can be free to live life!!"

Er, how will that be possible when they're kicked out of their homes and starving because they have no ability to purchase big OR small ticket items?

"Don't worry, Guaranteed Minimum Income will take care of THAT problem!!"

Guaranteed minimum income isn't going to save us. That's a fucked pipe dream.

For one, if there's no revenue coming in, it cannot be funded amidst the already enormous bills our MIC and corporations demand from the public largesse.

Secondly, today's conservatives are George Bush on steroids. Toss any microscopic notion you might have about them softening up to the idea that one person (let alone millions) isn't going to be able to exchange work for a paycheck. They're never going to stand for that; you know this as well as I do.

Oh, and if you think the millions upon millions of unemployed in retail, manufacturing, medical, warehouses, industry, automotive, etc, etc, etc doesn't affect YOU, white collar worker, THINK AGAIN.

If no one has a paycheck coming in, guess what: they aren't buying your services or your funds or seeing you for loans/mortgages . . . forget about them buying stocks, doing taxes, forget about the investments in R & D, forget about all of that. You might as well take a goddamned lighter to that MBA or PhD, because it's a-gonna be worthless.

But hey, just ignore me. LAUGH AWAY. "Ha ha ha ha, Luddite! Because America has invented everything they need already, right? HA HA HA HA HA!"

What, you think Joe Sixpack's going to invent his way out of this mess? It doesn't work that way anymore - most invention is performed in corporate laboratories with mean-ass patent attorneys in 2015. You know, unless Joe Sixpack is somehow rich with lots of 3-D printers at his disposal. Oh wait, who's going to buy his product?

Any light bulbs going off in your heads yet?

Laugh gleefully while some of you think that this is the event that's going to finally lead to the Democratic Socialism we all want. Y'all couldn't be more incorrect on this. This is going to lead to a dystopia that will make the Great Depression seem like a two-car accident. It's going to be horrific, there's going to be a shit-ton of pain, there's going to be starvation, there's going to be unneeded deaths and it's going to be biblical.