Amidst a growing level of unemployment, thousands of workers have been fired and then replaced by automatic systems. They have petitioned you to intervene. The Debate
1. "It's just sickening! Do you know how long it took most of us to get a decent, 'stable' job?" shouts Larry Hendrikson, president of the Klaus Devestatorie Labour Alliance, before dramatically sweeping your personal belongings off your desk. "And now we're losing our livelihoods to robots so that while our families starve, the corporations get even richer! Don't let the capitalist pigs blind you! This practice must be banned!"
2. "Hey, I've got a job to keep up too, you know," says Gregory Longbottom, a factory manager. "If I don't think of new ways of keeping costs down, the investors will go elsewhere. It's my neck on the line as much as anyone else's, even if I do have much more money. Besides, it's business, and no-one ought to be able to say who - or what - I can hire."
3. "This could be resolved if instead of replacing workers with machines, we added machines to workers!" enthuses Colin Trax, CEO of Mondas Ltd. "By replacing the body parts with stronger, better, metal prostheses, we can make the best industrial workers - literally - in the world! Imagine a shelver who can shift whole crates with just one arm! One finger! So let's hear no more of this deplorable 'replacing workers with machines' idea and look to the future!"
4. "You can't allow that!" gasps Falala Hanover, a manual labourer. "If that happens, only the people with cyber limbs will get jobs! And the corporations will contract you into having the surgery if you want to have one! No thank you! We should go back to the grass roots of industry when all the machines weren't computerised and workers were the salt of the earth! Then maybe we'd see a bit more appreciation! And cash!"
intersting issue, i would go for the 1. option with the social aspect. buuuut someone scrambling my desk would piss me off enough to simply ignore him. i am a really subjective dictator, or not? so i would go for 2 to help economic in a liberal way, or 3 in an oppressing way... number 4 seems a bit to harsh as it seems to combie the social with the oppressing while destroying your economic... but upside i guess it will help the envroiment too
so we only can guess what those chooses will do, as in the short run you wouldnt notice most of them if it wasn just breaking some barrier
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by Klaus Devestatorie » Sat Dec 19, 2009 5:52 pm 
