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PDJane

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1. The problem isn't the machinery, it's the power to move the machinery.
Fri Jan 25, 2013, 03:09 AM
Jan 2013

Jeremy Rifkin has already written the book, but the problem is twofold: the machines that make the machines has been tried. It's been found to be too expensive and too slow. That's why apple has moved to China. The people that make the machines are slaves, quite literally, and they are faster to change and cheaper to run. That's one problem. The other problem is that the machines can be made, but the resources to make them are running out. It's been a dream all along, and we are finding ourselves as serfs. And yes, the revolution can come again, but we need to make sure that the 1% don't rise again. They're like bloody vampires.

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