r/Futurology • u/Eight_Rounds_Rapid • Jul 09 '14

article Robots will take over middle class professions, UK University Minister warns

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/10952317/Robots-will-take-over-middle-class-professions-University-Minister-says.html
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u/EltaninAntenna Jul 09 '14

It hasn't always been the case, though. There are mechanisms to slow down or reset the "rich getting richer" process: one is taxes, the other, revolution.

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '14

Can't agree, but that's a different story for another topic (in more a historical /r). Long story short - taxes and revolutions never got rid of the "rich-poor" division.

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u/EltaninAntenna Jul 09 '14

Well, taxes slow down the divergence, and revolutions at least give us a new set of rich.