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All developed nations got there by exploiting cheap/free labor from immigrants, slaves, and oppressed minorities. There's plenty of extremely poor people left in the world, so I don't see that stopping anytime soon. Already, Japan depends primarily on foreign seasonal labor for their agricultural industry. I predict the same will continue for hundreds of years to come (if we survive that long.


Robotics will be ready well before then


We just have to put underpaid workers in fancy StarTrek knock-off spandex costumes, like Tesla did.




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