Social diversity

perhaps you can explain why thing made in china and places like that
are so much cheaper. they can be made in the us with machines, but
they are cheaper coming from china made without the machines.

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophile"
>
> --- In spacesettlers, wrote:
>
> > or can AFFORD THE COST OF MACHINES
> >
> > :-))
>
> Generally, machines are put in because they are CHEAPER THAN
PEOPLE.
> Now, granted, slaves are cheaper than are free people, but as
> technology improves machines keep getting cheaper, while slaves do
> not. So slaves are still a poor second to machinery.
>
> Besides, slaves have this nasty habit of wanting to be free.
> Machines are free from freedom yearnings.
>
> As for "will machines as good as humans in every aspect *ever* be
> invented?" {Lucio de Souza Coelho} I would say, "maybe not in
*every*
> aspect, but in *enough* aspects, yes."
> For several decades, robotic movement seemed to be stuck at the
level