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==Transcript== {{Computertranscript}} :[Describe panel here] :Ever more j0b5 went to machines. :Your job analyzing job losses to robots is now obsolete. :How? :I'd explain, but you wouldn't understand :The math. :First, we lost jobs machines could do easily :What if we had a steam-driven motor turn the millstone? :Then why even bother having poor people? :Then we lost jobs computers do easily :The machine recognizes bad potato chips and ejects them from the conveyor. :But that's my job :It also ejects redundant employees. :Then, we lost jobs we thought computers would never do. :Computer, I need a coming-of-age novel, but in the style of fitzgerald that'll convince me to find solace after the sudden loss of my parents also, throw in a couple of man-man-cady threesomes. :And harry potter :Soon, the only employers were people who had massive capital prior to the job pocalypse :My god. Karl marx was right about everything except timing, location, reasons and specifics. :The only remaining jobs were those for which human employges were preferable. :Tell me I'm a good boss but do not make eye contact. :Ever more specific niche programming became the only way to extract money from capital -holders :Here's the news for todd's kitchen today: Bit of a jam with a jam jar. :No one is happy, but once the military became robotic, revolution became impossible. 59 the exponential increase in specificity rolls on. :Here's the news for todd's head today: Well, it was a hair-raising morning/ :It's not the most meaningful work, but it does have its moments :Here's the news for todd's orifices today: Bit of a jam with a jam jar. :smbc-comics.com
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