[Ryan_Shmotkin]

No, you don't.

If the amount of wealth increased (or even stayed the same) with less man-power required. We as 'humans' have lost nothing. (But rather gained some free time to pursue other interests).

Only possible problem is that this might lead to higher inequality, which is a whole different problem that needs solving already (look at afrika)

[v0cab]

Or to put the problem of inequality another way:

Some people have lots of money and thereby the ability to manipulate lawmakers and media to control me. I no longer have the ability to make any money. I do not have the ability to make those people give me their money. I am screwed.

[nickik]

Reform your democracy when lobbying is such a big problem. The more power in one place the more worth you get on lobbying. Change to a more democratic system and maybe smaller countries.

[eli_gottlieb]

But we're not talking about the democracy problem. We're talking about the capitalism problem.

[nickik]

No you talk about Corporatism. One of the way to fight that is to give it less points of power to hook into.

- Federalism

- Direct Democracy

- Small Staate

- Strong Constitution

- Strong Mechanism to insure new laws dont violate constitution

- Transparency

[eli_gottlieb]

No you talk about Corporatism.

Very, very wrong. Turning corporatism into "true" capitalism (no TRUE capitalism puts sugar in its porridge, by the way) would not halt the march of computationally-driven productivity advances and subsequent disemployment.