[ExI] segregation forever!!

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Fri May 27 20:04:37 UTC 2016


On 27 May 2016 at 20:03, Adrian Tymes  wrote:
> It is a choice, on the child's part, to be born to parents who fail to
> provide for their children?
>
> It is a choice to be unaware of educational opportunities, and to have been
> told all your life that education is somehow a bad thing/only used by the
> enemy who oppresses you and your family?
>
> It is a choice to have addictive, health-depleting drugs forced on you
> before you are mentally capable of appreciating the dangers?
>
> There are ways out of poverty.  But not all of the ways in are entirely
> voluntary.  Some people wind up starving and must be dealt with on that
> level, before they can be dealt with as rational people who can afford the
> time to learn employable skills.
>


In one factory in China Foxconn has just replaced 60,000 workers with robots.
<http://www.geek.com/news/foxconn-has-replaced-60000-workers-in-one-factory-with-robots-1656337/>

Perhaps the poor could be also replaced with robots?   ;)

BillK



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