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Comment author: noxSL 22 July 2014 02:00:24PM -1 points [-]

This is important because more robots could provide the economic growth needed to solve many urgent problems

Isn't the problem that you can't have economic growth with robots? Robots don't get paid and don't participate in the circular economy. You need a whole bunch of new people that have a salary that will spend money to pay for all the robots. Which apparently we don't have.

Comment author: Lumifer 22 July 2014 03:05:34PM 2 points [-]

s/robots/machinery/ and think again.

Comment author: Algernoq 22 July 2014 11:35:25PM *  1 point [-]

You can't have (per-capita) economic growth without robots.

Robot owners get paid, and make things for other people using their robots.

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