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The2ndWheel

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12. Will everyone be one thing in a world like that?

Tue Jul 17, 2012, 02:43 PM

Jul 2012

Is it that way today? Was it that way in the past?

Some will call that a world of freedom, others will call it a prison. Some people will excel in such a world, others will struggle. Some may find it better than any alternative, others may find it completely pointless. Some will find their place, others never will. Some may end up as philosophers or artists of the highest regard, the people who just didn't have the time to pursue those interests in a different world. Other people may drink or drug themselves to death, maybe because they just didn't have the time to do that in a different world. Then of course anything in between.

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When Machines Do Your Job [View all] Flaxbee Jul 2012 OP

As a machine tool student just as CNC was beginning, we asked this question. Gregorian Jul 2012 #1

My husband visited Chinese manufacturers about 15 years ago, and then about 5 years ago ... Flaxbee Jul 2012 #2

I feel like apologizing for my repetition regarding this subject, but Gregorian Jul 2012 #5

Yup. moondust Jul 2012 #8

Absolutely FreeJoe Jul 2012 #3

"Labor saving devices" are really "Labor replacing devices". Tierra_y_Libertad Jul 2012 #4

It'd be a good thing if our entire society wasn't built upon... Comrade_McKenzie Jul 2012 #6

The future? Spike89 Jul 2012 #7

You're right on to the issue. There is an insurmountable and fundamental failure in our currency Egalitarian Thug Jul 2012 #11

Kurt Vonnegut addressed this 60 years ago. sadbear Jul 2012 #9

Do you see the irony that they published this as an e-book? randome Jul 2012 #10

Will everyone be one thing in a world like that? The2ndWheel Jul 2012 #12

Huge social/philosophical questions you've raised Spike89 Jul 2012 #13