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Old 01-02-2017, 06:16 PM   #27
fjtorres
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Originally Posted by Katsunami View Post
And in the end, everything will be automated except for the process of creating the devices All that will be left in the west are jobs at University+ or Ph.D. level, and everyone who hasn't studied at this level for whatever reason will be out of work, out of money, and no-one will be left to buy said devices.

Except maybe the people in countries that actually produce them.

Then western civilization will collapse, and the east will begin to automate everything that hasn't been done yet; after which they'll collapse as well.

We're doomed, and it's all because of automation. We're producing more and more stuff with less and less people.
Ned Ludd salutes you.
He said it first, though.

The world's been going to heck for millenia yet somehow we muddle through.
Automation has been destroying the world for three hundred years yet somehow the standard of living keeps going up.

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