"Will robots take all the jobs?" - http://boingboing.net/2013/05/17/will-robots-take-all-the-jobs.html
In 1998, Stanley Aronowitz from NYU got into a battle of Plenary speakers in Chicago over his book, "The Jobless Future" at DePaul University. It went something like this (But not exactly). PL:"Dr. Aronowitz, are you saying that with automation, we will all be set free from labour and be freed into a new leisure class?" SA:"Well, I think about a NYC dock worker who has been periodically jobless from mechanization. He is becoming part of the new leisure class, and he seems to be adapting quite well. He spends his days at the NYC library, following his own interests." PL:"Evidently, you haven't visited Eastern Ohio or Appalachia. I have family that would either become subsistence farmers or wind up on public assistance, eating junk food and playing Xbox all day, if they don't run afoul of crystal meth." SA:"Mr. Lichty, have you actually READ my book?" PL:"Yes, I have. Have YOU? I think your fallacy on Marx is entirely wrong." Moderator:"I think we should change the subject..." _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
