Quote from: jbreher on August 08, 2014, 02:25:43 PM

Nice quote redaction. Tell me how hunger will be motivation for the crew that will build the assembly robots that produce the graders that clear the land for the factory that will build the thrashing machines that will sow the grain.

We already have robots building robots that build cars TODAY. Inside a decade or two the robotics industry will explode, by the way displacing millions more human employees (say goodbye to every job involving driving a vehicle, that's millions in the USA alone).

Perhaps you have heard google is buying up robotics firms like crazy - guess why that is?

With or without the advent of socialism, capitalism is doomed. The question is not whether capitalism will survive - it won't - it can't survive the coming mass-automation of low-level jobs. The only question is, what system will be build to replace capitalism? I'm hoping for something much more compassionate...

related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYIfeZcXA9U