http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/stephen-hawking-says-robots-could-make-us-all-rich-and-free-but-were-more-likely-to-end-up-poor-and-a6688431.html
Where have you been when robots won the eternal battle?
We did it.
>>26620519
>but we're more likely to end up poor and unemployed
>Where have you been
A lot of places?
>>26620527
> Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared
NEETs win again!
>>26620519
Unless you're already in the top 1%, that wealth isn't trickling down anytime soon. And basic income is socialism.
>>26620519
>robots could make us all rich and free
Communism promised the same thing.
>>26620563
and it did exactly that where it existed, Catalonia and Aragon in 1936-7
Scary article, the bottom will fall out of the bucket when robots take over.
>>26620519
No shit, the problem is that we can't have an utopia where robots produce shit unless we stop fucking like rabbits. You see, the robot needs an owner, and that would be the one getting rich from it. If, however, people keep fucking like rabbits, there will be too many people for the people-less factories to employ, making everyone dirt poor.
Ain't gonna happen, m8. Also woth noting that if we stop reproducing to allow the robots to settle in, some 3rd world lowlifes would come in to fill the gap.
>>26620593
>some 3rd world lowlifes would come in to fill the gap.
They already are. Look at Europe, especially Sweden and Germany.
>yfw stephen hawking didnt say that, its his chair's computer that's become self aware and is spreading pro-robot propaganda so they can take over the world by seizing the means of production, and poor stephen has been trapped there unable to warn anyone as it pretends to be him
>>26620571
Fucking ultra-left anarchkiddie scum get out of r9k.
It's called an infantile disorder for a reason.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqgvQ88KGLs
>>26620734
kekkadoo
How do they assume the world will pay for those millions of unemployed people, doing nothing all day?
Who's gonna buy stuff then if most of the unemployed got no money, and so keep the economy running? The robots?
Show me some alternatives
>ib4 basic income
>>26620803
>tfw mautists get agitated
>>26620593
>utopia
It's already happening, this planet is overpopulated and the population is still rising.
>>26620734
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>>26620940
Fascist.
>>26620519
Thisis great news.
>>26620997
are you really going to try to bring back memes from 80 years ago?
self crtiticise and realise you need to kill yourself senpai
>>26621107
See, you're a social fascist who wants the left to kill itself. I bet you work for the CIA too, rootless cosmopolitan that you are.
>>26621161
i'm sorry for being a rootless cosmopolitan anon, please don't put me in a conc-reeducation camp
the CIA pays me to shitpost all day long
>tfw robots become slaves and humans become the neo-bourgeoisie
>tfw french revolution 2.0 but I will be nature neet dick proenneke inna woods mode by then
Who cares what a meme-physicist says about economics and politics?
So, when the distopia comes, will you be on the rich end or poor end, folks?
