>Gilens and Page: Average citizens have little impact on public policy

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You can argue we're already there. Politicians don't do anything for their constituents if big money disagrees.

I still remember when Obama was first elected and we thought we'd get something close to European style health care. Nobody was like oh gosh, golly I'm getting a subsidy to afford for profit health care insurance.

From technological point of view robo communism is very possible. I just don't know if it's what we're going to get.

The alternative is an endless spiral downward. You have fast food restaurants in NYC where outsourced customer service takes orders. Having a robot flip patties isn't hard. You could end up turning 6 jobs into 1.

Which on its surface is a good thing. Food service is ultimately a very dangerous job, and wouldn't it be great if those other five people could be working on art or something else.

We need to rethink what makes a person valued. I'm not religious, but from that angle, as a child of God you have inherit value.

This value exceeds any network you can seek to obtain.

Then again, economics isn't a simple thing.