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"The germinal societies like Singapore and communist Hong Kong may give us a mutant capitalism that is both virulent and efficient. This is a significant cultural danger."
- Gregory Benford
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| Replaced Worker Benefits | ||
| Compensation for people whose jobs are taken by robots. |
| The Freedom to Work Act was one of several bills passed in Congress after the Day of Rage. The new law said that companies were free to fire any employee, but a worker replaced by a nubot that "appears or pretends to be human" had to be compensated. |
| From Spark,
by John Twelve Hawks. Published by Knopf in 2014 Additional resources -
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Compare to the royalties for imitation learning subjects from Q.U.R. (1943) by Anthony Boucher.
...when I showed up at the building one morning, I discovered that Miss Canales had been replaced by a nubot that was designed to look like a muscular blond man in his twenties.
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