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Ray Kurzweil Explains Why Technology Won't Eliminate Human Jobs (fortune.com)
Futurist Ray Kurzweil, now a director of engineering at Google, made an interesting argument in a new interview with Fortune:
We have already eliminated all jobs several times in human history. How many jobs circa 1900 exist today? If I were a prescient futurist in 1900, I would say, "Okay, 38% of you work on farms; 25% of you work in factories. That's two-thirds of the population. I predict that by the year 2015, that will be 2% on farms and 9% in factories." And everybody would go, "Oh, my God, we're going to be out of work." I would say, "Well, don't worry, for every job we eliminate, we're going to create more jobs at the top of the skill ladder." And people would say, "What new jobs?" And I'd say, "Well, I don't know. We haven't invented them yet."
That continues to be the case, and it creates a difficult political issue because you can look at people driving cars and trucks, and you can be pretty confident those jobs will go away. And you can't describe the new jobs, because they're in industries and concepts that don't exist yet.
Kurzweil also argues that "the power and influence of governments is decreasing because of the tremendous power of social networks and economic trends..."
"A lot of people think things are getting worse, partly because that's actually an evolutionary adaptation: It's very important for your survival to be sensitive to bad news. A little rustling in the leaves may be a predator, and you better pay attention to that."
That continues to be the case, and it creates a difficult political issue because you can look at people driving cars and trucks, and you can be pretty confident those jobs will go away. And you can't describe the new jobs, because they're in industries and concepts that don't exist yet.
Kurzweil also argues that "the power and influence of governments is decreasing because of the tremendous power of social networks and economic trends..."
"A lot of people think things are getting worse, partly because that's actually an evolutionary adaptation: It's very important for your survival to be sensitive to bad news. A little rustling in the leaves may be a predator, and you better pay attention to that."
Maybe you should try being a decent person, for once.
Maybe you should try looking at women as something more than simple sex automatons.
Maybe, I dunno... Treat them as actual people?
I stopped being a misogynistic shitbag years and years ago. Funnily enough, my dating prowess improved markedly after I decided to not be an asshole, and decided to actually respect women as people, rather than simply wet holes to stick my dick inside. If women continue to pass you by, take a good hard look at yourself, and take a look at the women you decide to pursue. You're simply doing it wrong.
Eat the rich.
Wow! All those virtue signals racing out in every possible direction, in a circus of self-righteous sensitivity.
You, sir, are SJW-certified. Random chick orgasms in your general direction.