(07-26-2017, 09:42 AM)Caldrac Wrote:

(07-25-2017, 08:58 PM)Byron LeftTown Wrote: The short answer to the unemployment problem has been discussed in think tanks and universities for many years.  It involves the culling of roughly 90% of all humans, through starvation, war, pandemic, chemical sterilization, etc..  This plan is actually carved in stone via the mysterious Georgia Guidestones.  This sculpture describes "guided reproduction" and a total worldwide population of only 500 million.

Didn't they knock those stones down though up there? I could have sworn I read that awhile back. Regardless that was a pretty creepy monument to begin with.

No, they're still there.   I stopped and looked at them last year.   They're pretty cool.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones

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(07-25-2017, 06:49 PM)FBT Wrote: No doubt our humble servants in DC will slap a tax on all things autonomous to force the costs to skyrocket.

I don't think so.  

You have to look at who is going to advocate for such a tax, and who would be fighting the tax.   The people who will be making the autonomous cars have plenty of money to throw around in Washington and no one to take the opposite side, really.  You'll have major industrialists, car companies, software companies, on one side, and on the other side you'll have a disorganized group of taxi drivers and truck drivers who aren't even aware of what is about to happen to them.  

Then there's also the fact that if we want the United States to be the worldwide leader in the coming age of robotics and automation, the government needs to cut them some tax BREAKS, not the opposite.

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