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Originally Posted by MattyC
So did horses. And cars. And planes. And the movement from rural to urban centers.
It drives me nuts when people say this stuff. "It sounds hard" is not an excuse.
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The economics of such a transfer are not insignificant, nor is the process inevitable. Instead of blindly believing in progress, one has to understand why things were the way they were, and give a good case for change.
People are so flip when they describe the massive changes of the past. The move from an agrarian rural economy to an urban industrial economy was arguably the most shocking thing that has ever happened to humanity. Ever. It still isn't over.
It amazes me that people are lackadaisical when it comes to the information age. Oh yeah, robots will take over. It will be great. No problems there. You would literally be supplanting yourself as the dominant species on the planet. Not to mention the problems that come with wealth transfer, and the subsequent socio-economic collapse that would come from basically disinheriting 99% of the world's population from ever being to contribute meaningfully to their own destiny ever again.
So yeah, it is a little more than "it sounds hard."