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Topic	Would you prefer fast food restaurants to be automated?
marthsheretoo 04/25/17 11:07:01 PM #32:	Dustin1280 posted... marthsheretoo posted... Dustin1280 posted... On the one hand yes, it would be much better. But from an economics position, no. I hope you don't mean that we should deliberately stagnate technological progress in order to preserve an outdated system of living. IF you are talking about the perfect world scenario where everything is 100% automated and everyone is provided for by the government, that is a nice DREAM... But it's definitely not realistic No, I'm referring to literally every other technological advancement in history that has led to people going out of work but has improved QoL. Refrigerators, for example. Inventing those put a bunch of ice-peddlers out of work. An entire industry, gone. Sounds to me like if you'd been alive back then, you'd be on the ice-peddlers' side. After all, from an economic perspective, it's more important to keep those jobs, right? --- "Even MarthKoopa has jumped on the MarthKoopa hate wagon." -DevsBro <cite>marthsheretoo posted [p:877909740] in Would you ... [t:75270648]...</cite> <quote><cite>Dustin1280 posted...</cite> <quote><cite>marthsheretoo posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Dustin1280 posted...</cite> <quote>On the one hand yes, it would be much better. But from an economics position, no.</quote> I hope you don't mean that we should deliberately stagnate technological progress in order to preserve an outdated system of living.</quote> IF you are talking about the perfect world scenario where everything is 100% automated and everyone is provided for by the government, that is a nice DREAM... But it's definitely not realistic</quote> No, I'm referring to literally every other technological advancement in history that has led to people going out of work but has improved QoL. Refrigerators, for example. Inventing those put a bunch of ice-peddlers out of work. An entire industry, gone. Sounds to me like if you'd been alive back then, you'd be on the ice-peddlers' side. After all, from an economic perspective, it's more important to keep those jobs, right? --- "Even MarthKoopa has jumped on the MarthKoopa hate wagon." -DevsBro</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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