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Old 06-21-2016, 04:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Lune [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
Don't understand how somebody can be so fanatical about free market economics when we live on the eve of a revolution in automation, and the vast majority of human labor will be obsolete.

Even if you believe it worked well in the past (it did, it was a fantastic boon to industrialization), it's obviously not going to work in the future. It simply won't take 8 billion humans to run the economy, and consumption-driven economics is destined to destroy the planet.
What do you propose we do with the surplus people?
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