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In Case Robots Take the Jobs[^]
Takes Marx one step further, now you don't even need to have ability. Well, now I feel better. 
Quote: From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. Karl Marx
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If wages drop, by definition this makes demand for goods and services drop - so if we automate everything and wages drop to zero then demand for anything except life essentials will drop to zero and there will be no reason for the robots to make anything.
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: there will be no reason for the robots to make anything.
Well, they will need to keep making robots and robot parts, to keep us enslaved.
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Well, you're assuming that robots will gain intelligence and consciousness some day... 
But why would they ever do that? I has yet to happen to the human population...
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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They don't need to be that intelligent, just more intelligent than us.
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So why aren't we enslaved yet?
Uh, oh!
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There's still like 3 or 4 smart people left somewhere out there.
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Abraham Maslow said: "The only happy people I know are those who are working well at something they consider important."
If you tend toward the negative, consider the inverse of this truth, which might be something like:
Maharba Wolsam said: "All the miserable people I know are that way because they are not working on anything, or anything they consider important."
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I would say that happiness is also directly proportional to the amount of alcohol they consume while working...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
modified 2-Mar-16 9:53am.
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Yay for ADD!
veni bibi saltavi
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Only if you hit the Ballmer Peak[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That's true. But I've given it some thought, and actually I don't believe that that whole graph is accurate.
At least as far as I am concerned, the curve starts out low, rises with the percentage until a given point where it drops suddenly.
I think I'll have to investigate further. Who knows, I might write myself into BOTH medical AND computer science history in one go. I realise of course that it's going to take a long time and a lot of tests, but I guess I'll have to make that sacrifice for science!
That is: Unless Nagy is already further along in those studies than me ??? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
modified 2-Mar-16 11:11am.
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raddevus wrote: Abraham Maslow said: "The only happy people I know are those who are working well at something they consider important."
Getting paid helps.
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Getting paid well helps more... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Johnny J. wrote: Getting paid well helps more..
Sometimes that's what makes it even MORE important. 
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wizardzz wrote: Getting paid helps.
Sometimes that what makes it important.
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The only happy people I know should have been locked away for the safety of the public years ago! I'm determined to have happiness declared a mental illness before I go to my rest! Save the world; drown an optimist!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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9082365 wrote: Save the world; drown an optimist!
SO - YOU THINK SOMETHING COULD ACTUALLY SAVE THE WORLD? And that anyone would even want to?
You just put yourself at the head of the optimist list.
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You manipulated the inverse of quote a little bit (and wrongly so):
It should be "All the miserable people I know are that way because they are working badly on something they consider important or they have jobs which they consider unimportant."
It doesn't state anything about not working.
Are all people that are retired considered to be unhappy?
Otherwise I like it.
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."
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That's a good point, but I wasn't thinking about people who don't have a job.
I was thinking more along the lines of someone who really isn't working on anything they themselves consider important but still have the ability to do so.
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Aah, yes... Now I get it. Yes, that is very painful. To that I'll add that: Doing work that I know is pointless also causes extreme unhappiness.
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."
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R. Erasmus wrote: Doing work that I know is pointless also causes extreme unhappiness.
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This idea is false. I'm retired, not working on a damn thing, and am very happy.
OTOH, I think I was happiest when I had my sci-tech advisor job in Iraq, because I was able to do it well, and considered that it might save a soldier, which I believed to be very worthwhile, so yeah, if you must work, then yeah, the premise is true.
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I don't know? I think Wally is very happy and he is doing nothing important actually nothing at all. He is very good at doing nothing at all.
Dilbert linkage of course. Clickity[^]
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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