The dream of less work

[Clarke]

Originally Posted by Niri Te

No, Iron, only those of us who are both SMART, and SOBER, EH?
Niri Te

I think there's two different tiers of "smart" going on here. There's the smart you need to survive as a soldier in the field... and then there's the far more powerful and more technical smarts you need to make the first lot obsolete. Because, in truth, DARPA wants to replace you(r job).

And personally, I can't really see how cutting the military's budget 50% can hurt the U.S., considering you're technology is two steps ahead of everyone else's, and your military large enough to fight several wars simultaneously. You don't need all of that.

Originally Posted by Human No More

People get older; people live longer.
If someone hasn't made their own preparations, they have to accept what there is. If there were fewer people in the world, they wouldn't NEED to.
In case you hadn't noticed, it's a recession.

"The choices you made 40-50 years ago didn't pan out? Tough!"
I'm half-expecting you to recommend that the severely poor die quickly so as to decrease the surplus population.