"...the problem of capitalism" I've grown to hate this kind of comment. It's a cheap jab.<br>To be fair to Kate I didn't take it seriously either until I found out that one of my friends was Kazakh and had close family downstream of Lake Karachay. That brought it home.<br>The comment presupposes that there is a better solution that solves for both the human condition and the allocation of scarce resources and does so over multiple generations. To mangle a quote; capitalism is the worst kind of system except for all the other ones. Communism is lighting an ugly bird on fire and hoping it's a phoenix.<br><br>A possible ethical solution for robots might be to make sure that robots cannot feel pain. But that would also necessitate denying them positive feelings because if just the negative bound is removed the median simply shifts up.<br>I think as things progress new words will be needed for specifying the job a robot is built to solve. The problem of work, the problem of mortal distress, and maybe the problem of truth.<br><br>Thanks for the podcast Lex!,(reply>), @Bob Bobbity Discussing the problems capitalism has does not presuppose there is a better system. But that wasn't an invitation for a discussion.<br>"The problems within capitalism" vs "the problem of capitalism".<br>When phrased that the problem is capitalism itself the statement is about systems and in that there is an assumption of a better system by which to judge it by.,(reply>), Captain1nsaneo how does discussing the problems of capitalism presuppose there’s a better solution?