From: Alfio Puglisi (puglisi@arcetri.astro.it)
Date: Thu Jul 24 2003 - 10:09:40 MDT
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
>Alfio wrote:
>> http://marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm
>>
>>[...]
>
>### You might want to apply Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage, and also
>briefly think about the price of robots in relation to the average income of
>the unemployed. If you add these two simple considerations, you could
>conclude that there is no need to "deal" with any situation here, and
>especially not deal as in the New Deal, which resulted in losses to the
>economy which continue to this day. The robotic future will be many times
>better than you imagine, as long as you don't spoil it by "making jobs".
Sorry if I haven't made it clear, but I think too that the author is
totally wrong about the issue. Only in the last paragraph there is a
different view than "we are all doomed". That's not enough :-)
I posted the address since this is a front page story on Slashdot, and
about 500,000 people will read it in the next day or two. His pessimistic
views will probably gain some followers...
Ciao,
Alfio
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