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Landru's avatar

That is a real question and the answer was needed 20 yrs. ago. The more you read Marx the future is revealed. The scary thing to me, nuclear war seems to be the population control of choice by all political parties of the NATO nations. Truly Creative Destruction the necessary evil of Capitalism.

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DomeLord's avatar

The answer to the question is that WE own these robots. They are part of our common cultural inheritance. While hordes of boffins through the ages worked on technology, we toiled in the fields for their food, we worked in textile factories to provide them with clothes, we built their homes, we mined mineral resources, and so on. Those with large stockpiles of [imaginary] money might think robots belong to themselves but they can blow such mental deficiencies out of their trousers. Our ancestors generally worked to make a better life for all of us. The gates to a Golden Age of Leisure are still there open to us but the illegitimate Money Power is trying hard to squeeze them shut thereby trapping us into these banksters wet dream of permanently enslaving all of us.

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