On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Piaget Modeler <[email protected]> wrote: > > Unless we redistribute wealth through socioeconomic engineering, creating > more unemployment through automation > certainly won't help matters ...
This is getting tiresome. I keep offering empirical evidence that technology improves people's standard of living and does not cause unemployment, and you keep insisting that it does. > "CAIRO -- Egypt’s recent days of violence have focused attention on the > country’s political crisis – but the underlying > cause remains an economy on the brink of collapse. Rising prices of basic > goods like bread, sugar and gasoline > coupled with high rate of unemployment and a lack of social justice has > created a lethal and combustible cocktail. > Poor education, youth disenfranchisement, unemployment and poverty have > created a reservoir of resentment Are you blaming the internet for allowing the protesters to organize? Perhaps Egypt should do like Syria and shut it off. Otherwise, I don't see how technology is the cause of their problems. -- -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
