Hawking On Our Future

[What Would Jesus Do?]

If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality.

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[Todd Lickliter]

How is miserably poor defined? Is it relative to what those who own and created the wealth producing machines have?

Also, I believe you have your default backwards as far as rhetoric goes. Perhaps it is other who may fail to lobby in favor of acquiring things produced by others by power of majority.

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

But what does Hawking know? Am I right?

 

[Todd Lickliter]

Your whole counter is an appeal to authority re: a physicist?

 

[dbq hawk 32]

The issue won't be wealth distribution,, it will be overpopulation

 

[moral_victory]

The issue won't be wealth distribution, it will be overpopulation

The two can make a pretty nasty duo.

 

[naturalmwa]

I expecting this to be a Hawkeyes thread.