Quote from: memvola on September 09, 2011, 12:21:59 PM

You are falling to the same trap again. It looks as if you are rephrasing Stalin. Wink

(I don't like USSR analogies but this one was worth mentioning.) I've been thinking the same thing since I was a kid, but thinking it is nothing. Stalin screwed up big time trying to achieve that very same goal, because of the very same mistake.

Look stalinism was actually.

Dictatorship
"State capitalism"

Nothing to do with RBE ...

Quote from: memvola on September 09, 2011, 12:21:59 PM

Cynicism aside, you are making three leaps at once. You assume that we know how to automate and we don't do it. You assume it is economically feasible to automate but we don't do it. And finally you assume it will be socially feasible to automate. I think all of these are partially true. But I don't have anything substantial to back it up, do you? Again, looks as if your assumptions follow your conclusion, and not the other way around.

We actually do automate , you can see it if you actually looked at numbers.
Obama spent trillions of $ to increase jobs but companies spend 36% more on equipment and only 2% more of actually employing people.
And yes i am sure survey also included companies that create and service equipment . Funny thing some people ignore that and tell me someone have to do just that.

That would mean companies that create and service equipment spend more money on ... equipment.

This is a trend , obviously we cant automate everything right now , but this is general trend that wont stop.

I dont assume , assumption is a mother of all fuckups.