Comment by Big_Bucks_Doing_Nothing on Building Weirdtopia · 2009-01-14T09:14:43.000Z · LW · GW

Why, oh why haven't we robotized every job already? Why aren't our computers smarter? Why is there so much manual labor still around? A thin slice of humanity has several trillion of disposable money. Trillion. Millions of millions. What are they buying with it? Gold chains? ...because nothing really impressive seems to be happening. There's a lot of planning and talk, but happening... it ain't happenin'.