[extropy-chat] Seven cents an hour? (was: Riots in France)

[Damien Broderick]

At 06:08 PM 11/12/2005 -0800, spike wrote:

>If production is done by nanotech miracle factories,
>the result is exactly the same as offshoring, is it
>not?  Yet we don't dread that at all, we fondly
>anticipate it.

I do dread it, for exactly the reason I gestured at a few days ago 
(although I left out some of the steps):

People (young men especially) with full bellies gained effortlessly, but 
lacking meaning in their lives, often seem to find purpose fast in ganging 
up on each other in fits of murderous primate chest-pounding. Making Soma 
the opium of the people might help, but that's a pretty sickening prospect.

It's hard for us self-starter INTJs to grasp that hapless dynamic, but then 
we're less than 5% of the population, and most of us here are a slimmer 
slice through that group as well, being at least in the top 2 IQ percentiles.

Damien Broderick