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Uncle Joe

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5. The great proposition long touted and realized about robotics/invention
Tue Feb 8, 2022, 05:08 PM
Feb 2022

are the major improvements in productivity.

If the people benefitted from this great, but way too many are being left behind, so as a relative handful of owners can make out like mega bandits.

That has been the case for decades, productivity has gone up but wages have for the vast majority have remained stagnant.

I see no reason as to why automizing ever increasing amounts of our societal obligations in regards to security to be any different.

Ultimately the oligarchs will control this as well if they don't already and life will become ever cheaper as a result.

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Excellent idea! George II Feb 2022 #1
These robot dogs are some of the most creepy, dystopian harbingers of the future I can think of. chia Feb 2022 #2
The great proposition long touted and realized about robotics/invention Uncle Joe Feb 2022 #5
Metalhead and White Bear were the most terrifying episodes in Black Mirror. Tommy Carcetti Feb 2022 #9
I haven't seen the newer episodes, but so far, I agree with you on those two. chia Feb 2022 #13
The newer episodes are not quite as dark. Tommy Carcetti Feb 2022 #14
Oh, interesting, okay. I'll have to watch them one of these days. I guess San Junipero was respite chia Feb 2022 #16
This seems like a dry run for other missions, including apprehension, combat, etc. Simple dameatball Feb 2022 #3
I agree. I also believe Uncle Joe Feb 2022 #6
Good analogy. IrishAfricanAmerican Feb 2022 #11
Graft from the administration of TFG Auggie Feb 2022 #4
I'm just picturing wrapping wire around its legs poli-junkie Feb 2022 #7
Well check out a little more extensive footage on this video around the 2:10 mark Uncle Joe Feb 2022 #8
Woah -- it takes a kicking and can right itself. poli-junkie Feb 2022 #10
It's just beginning Uncle Joe Feb 2022 #12
Yep, just like the Terminator movies. poli-junkie Feb 2022 #15
I don't know that our future holds something exactly along those lines or not but I do believe Uncle Joe Feb 2022 #18
Yeah, but that looked like a nudge, not a kick Auggie Feb 2022 #19
This "dog" is exactly how I imagined the critters in the Nick Petrie novel "The Breaker" looked. dameatball Feb 2022 #17
Thats awful I_UndergroundPanther Feb 2022 #20
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