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I found a solution to the 3rd example problem on Automation and Unemployment : http://bit.ly/2nbHqX3

ED-209 wants to have a word with Robocop + I decreased frustration and societal unrest by massively funding Entertainment:

http://bit.ly/2mwwO7T

Basically, "Running Man" was entertainment / fiction when I read it as a kid, and it will be a documentary by the time I'm dead.

I love it! Now if we can put everyone to work as extras in all that entertainment... Clearly we need to encourage automation in the real economy and ban it in entertainment.

This tool does what it says: the conversation goes up a notch because the feedback effects are part of the shared context so you don't get distracted talking about them one-by-one to the exclusion of the systemic effects.

amazing how easy it was to make unstable/chaotic systems, Robocop will be busy

Just adding one more link with a negative relationship between Political Unrest and Profits makes this much more interesting!

https://goo.gl/lL7EvY

Mine is similar, but uses drugs: http://bit.ly/2nW8GbR

It's a Brave New World!

This thread is extremely entertaining!

I've got one surprisingly efficient, using fake jobs.

http://bit.ly/2n0CqDv

Makes you wonder...

We've been doing it for decades.

Yes, these jobs are part of the Tertiary Sector [1], but maybe we should open up a Quaternary Sector for them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_sector

Much easier to manage than UBI. I see a bright future ahead.

To be realistic, more automation does not lead to "more profit", because of competition. But, this is really great tool to actually visualize these arguments.

yeah, visualizing lets us move the argument to a more focused context. we could examine and say, lets figure out if "more profit" really does lead to "more tax" money, etc

http://bit.ly/2obNrlR

Great. Automation also reduces prices, which makes unemployment more attractive. Eventually prices will be negative (automation produces more than anyone can consume).

Thus we have marketing and credit cards...

Need an extra + from robocop to "more profits". After all, you can lease the robocop to the government.

Or maybe just replace tax with robocop and really go to town.

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