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Personally I always grew up reading science fiction stories and thinking that the purpose of mechanization and all the things that we're going to come in the future was to make everybody not have to ever work because the machines and the robots would do all the work and everybody be free to do whatever the hell they wanted. But when you really look at the history of mechanization industrialization and everything else it's always really about monopolization by a few people to get extraordinary profits and no one else benefits from it at all in fact most are left impoverished without any way to even earn food or medical care. And of course really if mechanization and robotization is doing all the work there's no justification under capitalism or any theory of investment or free enterprise or anything else for anyone group to own all the product from those robots and thus benefit financially from it so really everyone should. I mean the fact of the matter is morally robotization of the world should bring about some sort of a spread the wealth whatever you want to call it or else there's no real morality behind any of it not that there's ever been much morality behind anyway the world works.

Anyway it's just funny to hear this old politician who's probably been making his money off being a politician most of his life and not really working who enjoys extraordinary benefits and travel and food and a lifestyle based completely on the taxpayer bitching about the fact that kids might have more free time today than they used to and they can actually do what they want with it. And if they do do that then they're going to be forced to die and they won't get any medical care.

Which basically puts you right back on the plantation where the plantation owner owns the house you live in as a slave and as long as you work they'll give you food and you know if you break your leg they'll take care of you because you're working asset for them but if you ever stopped working well kiss your housing and your medical care and your food goodbye.


So is it really any different than slavery really? There's a reason most other countries have free health care and there's a reason that in America healthcare is used as the primary Hammer over someone's head to get them to work. Oh you want healthcare you've got to go work cuz your medical insurance is tied to your job?! And it's completely unaffordable if you want to pay for it yourself unless you're uber wealthy. So either work for someone else or die?