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From: taylor@hplabsc.UUCP
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Subject: More on the risks of over-automation
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Date: Fri, 27-Jun-86 17:52:52 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 27 17:52:52 1986
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a halfway-equitable way of distributing wealth?  For that
matter, what fraction of current humanity could cope with a lifetime of
leisure if they were suddenly presented with it?  Somebody (Arthur C.
Clarke?) once defined a civilized man as one who could be happily and
productively occupied for the rest of his life if he was completely
freed from all need to earn a living.  What fraction of the current
population of the Western nations, never mind the Third World, is
"civilized" by this definition?

				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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