[extropy-chat] Re: Seven cents an hour?

[Lifespan Pharma Inc/ MFJ-CTO]

The fact is that until automation can replace all those 7 cent/hr or 
even 1 dollar/hour salaries
the root cause of social unrest will not cease.

Not that people ever will get enough, but middle class have different 
ways of displaying dissatisfaction than
truly destitute slaves.

With the increases in energy cost inputs , the slaves are more valuable 
than ever to the
industrial world and there is the ethical conundrum.

Total control and total domination of those able to create value in 
sweatshops to maximize global value chains
OR
Investing into the means to bring the lowest human condition base 
standard of living up to middle class
to prevent the massive waste of resources a revolt of underclass creates.

MFJ

John K Clark wrote:

> I came across an interesting statistic, the average resident of 
> Mozambique
> makes about 80$ A YEAR.  I'm sure they work one hell of a lot longer 
> than 40
> hours a week to survive but even at that figure my 7 cents an hour 
> would be
> enough to push a person into the upper middle class, if Mozambique had a
> middle class. They don't. I figure they must be making about 4 cents an
> hour now, so all you have to do to win the argument and make me 
> concede that
> I am a villain for paying 7 cents an hour is to prove mathematically
> that 4 is greater than 7.
>
> John K Clark
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