On 19Oct2020 0122, Kelly St. Clair wrote:
> Longer than that; that's simply the default state of affairs for most
> of human history.  Better technology allows new wrinkles, however -
> like the increasing replacement, and ultimate
> irrelevance/obsolescence/redundancy, of human labor.  At which point,
> the Owners will simply have no use for the other 99.9etc percent of us...
They still have one use - they need us so that they have someone to be
rich than and 'better' than. Status is relative, after all.

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Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com>