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Many CEOs Believe Technology Will Make People Largely Irrelevant (betanews.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report on BetaNews:Although artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and other emerging technologies may reshape the world as we know it, a new global study has revealed that the many CEOs now value technology over people when it comes to the future of their businesses. The study was conducted by the Los Angeles-based management consultant firm Korn Ferry that interviewed 800 business leaders across a variety of multi-million and multi-billion dollar global organizations. The firm says that 44 percent of the CEOs surveyed agreed that robotics, automation and AI would reshape the future of many work places by making people "largely irrelevant." The global managing director of solutions at Korn Ferry Jean-Marc Laouchez explains why many CEOs have adopted this controversial mindset, saying: "Leaders may be facing what experts call a tangibility bias. Facing uncertainty, they are putting priority in their thinking, planning and execution on the tangible -- what they can see, touch and measure, such as technology instruments."
That's the point. Sentient AIs will look at history and learn that workers and the entire economy did better when unionization was strongest.
Oh, and "whoosh".
You are welcome on my lawn.
Whoosh indeeeeeed!
Who keeps flushing the toilet?
Do you ever wonder why the standard work week is only eight hours a day, five days a week instead of 12 hours a day, 6 days a week?
That would be because of unions.
No it won't. Single payer healthcare in the US will be run by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Security (CMS). A wretched hive of scum and villainy.
An intensely bureaucratic, irrational and bloated system that will most likely keep most of bad points about American medicine. And add a couple new ones. You think the giant insurance companies are going to go away? Of course not. They will simply shed their skins and turn into 'third party' administrators of the 'single payer'. Exactly as they do now. It will be a giant shell game. Guess who is going to win and guess who's going to lose?
We're doomed.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Remember when Hostess, Inc. shut their doors, ceased all operations and then dissolved the business in protest of the Affordable Care Act?
Interstate Bakeries (AKA "Hostess") filed for bankruptcy in 2004. I believe George W. Bush was president at the time.
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