“As human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache.” (tax, work)

[wawaweewa]

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August 18, 2012
Skilled Work, Without the Worker
By JOHN MARKOFF
DRACHTEN, the Netherlands — At the Philips Electronics factory on the coast of China, hundreds of workers use their hands and specialized tools to assemble electric shavers. That is the old way.

At a sister factory here in the Dutch countryside, 128 robot arms do the same work with yoga-like flexibility. Video cameras guide them through feats well beyond the capability of the most dexterous human.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/bu...ewanted=1&_r=1

[purehuman]

there should be a machine tax....for every man/women that the machine replaces, that tax should be applied.