Who killed Mr. Boddy in the study and with what?: the great debate topic™®

[TheABELBOTO]

who said we all weren't really robots to begin with.

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[Bisjac]

no, because it would give just a false sense of security and proper decision making to stupid people who are naive enough to believe that the robots are actually controlling anything at all. an easy scam for a powerful elite.

[·::Kishgal::·]

a powerful elite.

Isn't that you, though?

[Bisjac]

i wish. im not even close to rich enough ; ;

[Lockebox]

The thing is that robots don't control industry to begin with.

[·::Kishgal::·]

i wish. im not even close to rich enough ; ;

Boy, we're talking Very Elite, then, huh.
I dunno man, if this is all we need to launch into a cyberpunk future, maybe I'd be willing to see where it goes.

The thing is that robots don't control industry to begin with.

...yeah, that's why the question is "should they"

[Frequency]

yeah sure why not

[Otis Da HousKat]

Yes. I would love to be able to oppress poor people and ethnics even further.

[Ragequit]

no, because it would give just a false sense of security and proper decision making to stupid people who are naive enough to believe that the robots are actually controlling anything at all. an easy scam for a powerful elite.

you're just too gay to accept robots
get with the times man we're all robots at this point

[Camel]

why robots when we got sick hologramz

[Maxwell.]

why hologramz when we got pillows

[·::Kishgal::·]

why hologramz when we got pillows

convert all industry to pillows
yes
perfect

[Zack]

Serious answer. No, because while humans are vastly inferior and overall more expensive in the long run, letting robots control the industry will cause many many many jobs to become redundant, and new ones that pop up (like robot management or maintenance) will not surpass the amount of jobs lost, which would probably leave too many people in unemployment.

This implies the robots running the industry are able to do every job the humans could.

[SeventhSandwich]

there could be small apartments that would be free for people who can't afford their own (owned by the government), paid-for (by the government) passes for public transportation for people who can't afford it on their own or get a car, free food for people who can't afford to eat enough (things like bread and vegetables and meat, not candy or whatever), stuff like that

I don't think this is the solution to poverty because most of the programs you have described already exist in some capacity.

there could be small apartments that would be free for people who can't afford their own (owned by the government)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_the_United_States
The most recent system being:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_8_%28housing%29

paid-for (by the government) passes for public transportation for people who can't afford it on their own or get a car

You have a point on this one that there should be some kind of federal subsidy for low-income families struggling to pay for public transportation. There are some governmental programs on a state-by-state level that help people pay for public transit. Phoenix currently has a program that enables the homeless to get half price light-rail/bus tickets, for example.

However, I don't know how much of a difference this is going to make because I'd assume that public transportation isn't that much of a burden on low-income families when compared to stuff like housing, emergency medical expenses, etc.

free food for people who can't afford to eat enough (things like bread and vegetables and meat, not candy or whatever), stuff like that

Well, food stamp programs do not actually mandate what you have to buy with them. You get a booklet of little tiny snippets of paper that correspond to actual, face-values of money. They can only be spent on food though, and there's really no restrictions saying you can't buy bread and vegetables with them.

It's a completely valid complaint that most of the cheaper food options are far more unhealthy, and it's been addressed in some capacity by the government. There was a program in place that gave a few thousand households incentives for buying healthier food with food stamps in order to see whether they would purchase the healthier options, however I haven't looked at the results.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supplemental_Nutrition_Assistance_Program#Healthy_incentives_pilot

[·::Kishgal::·]

WRONG DEBATE NERD