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18084TM@msu.edu (Tom) writes:

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>Sorry.  Valuable, perhaps, but not moral.

>1) If it has such a good return, why do we need the gov. to pay for it?

Who needs a gov ? :-)) 

>2) How do you convince that factory worker that lost his job to a robot
>   that his money should be spent to help put him on the street?

If I'm not totally misinformed there are at least as many jobs created by
modern technology as go lost to robots. At least in Europe there was a debate
on the dangers of the computer in the late 70s: many people feared that they
could destroy their jobs, and that the government could introduce a "Great
Brother" system supervising and controling them. Now everybody has a PC which
often changed the job but in no way destroyed it, and there are extra jobs
that are now possible and could not be done w/o comp. The problem for the
worker will probably be (on longer terms) that he must qualify again for a 
new job, and some people will fail, since hightech usually requires more
skilled workers.
 Hartmut Frommert                 <phfrom@nyx.uni-konstanz.de>
 Dept of Physics, Univ of Constance, P.O.Box 55 60, D-W-7750 Konstanz, Germany
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