Ted Rall for December 14, 2016

Transcript:

Woman: Liu Cixin says robots will put 90% of us out of work. He says this could play out in one of two ways. There's a dystopian scenario of massive unemployment and constant turmoil, in which "the technorcratic 10%" lives "in a gated community with armed robot guards." In the utopian scenario, we've anticipated these changes and come up with solutions beforehand." Politicians create a vast social welfare state. Dystopia, then. Man: Too bad we don't have robot politicians.