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SimpleXYZ on Feb 23, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: AI learns to write its own code by stealing from o...

If society can change from taxes on tea being too high, it can change when unemployment is 91%.

darpa_escapee on Feb 23, 2017 [–]

The revolution started from tea taxes being too high also had the backing of the richest people at the time in what would become the US.

The automation revolution also has the backing of the richest people in the world.

I don't think a populist movement was behind the revolution nor here.

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