and while it may even be financially possible to do so due to increased productivity, most people tend to go a bit squirrelly when they feel they have no purpose in life.
Yeah, what will people do if they didn't have to grind away at meaningless jobs in soul-sucking cube farms or miserable retail environments for shitty pay? Take up a hobby that's personally meaningful and fulfilling or some shit?
I assume he intends to pay people for being smart, otherwise I'm not sure what these people are supposed to do with their new education.
Maybe become professional criminals? That's one scenario I've imagined for a world of mass-unemployment that could work. A select few have jobs with astronomical pay and the masses live off of excess money stolen from the employed caste, and they arrive at a sort of symbiosis where the tolerated existence of the vast crime economy staves off any kind of catastrophic reckoning event.
Reader joshtops shares an incredible story about how thousands of farmers in India are making use of AI and other technologies provided by Microsoft to ensure that they plow the field and sow the seeds at the right time. Prior to this, they were relying on their traditional instincts, which many of them say, had failed them in the recent years. From the story:
In the US, people are moving from using science and technology to relying on their traditional instincts, which are failing them in recent years.
First they bow out of the renewable energy industry to give the rest of the world a head start, and next the electric car industry, how kind of them! #MAGA - Making America Generous Again!
In one incident Chen described, a 15-year-old refused to tell Barksdale the name of his new girlfriend; Barksdale broke into the teen's Google Voice account, listened to messages to get the name, then taunted him with it and threatened to call her.
First this guy and then James Damore, Google hires some real winners...
Thank you, kind hero, for 11 minutes of calm peace and quiet. This will go down in history as the second best moment of Trump's presidency, after the lulztastic childish temper tantrum that will ensue when he gets impeached late next year.
You can find ads from criminal enterprises looking to hire fall guys like this on Craigslist. The fall guy's job is just to sign some papers and handle mail...
It's funny that very few racists are smart enough to be racist properly. It requires good knowledge of history and anthropology to know where to direct the irrational hatred.
Maybe if Razer would design a nice addon slider keyboard that worked well (many are available for the iPhone, but that's a silly toy) it could be a decent compromise. If it did have a mechanical keyboard I'd be preordering one right now.
The lack of a headphone jack isn't ideal, but with my latest phone I've only used it once, and that was because the bluetooth wasn't working at the time due to a software problem.
"CO2 is plant food," a stupid argument to use in favor of global warming considering CO2's other negative effects - especially the reduction in arable land, isn't even right in itself.
More accurately, CO2 is plant junk food. Higher CO2 levels produce less nutritious crops:
LOL how incredibly privileged you must be to believe this. You greatly overestimate not only the number and quality of jobs available, but the number of employers who won't instantly circle-file any application that doesn't list a college degree (of the specific level they're looking for - you could be overqualified just as easily as you could be underqualified). You have a libertarian's child's understanding of the job market and I'm guessing no Gen. Y friends who aren't similarly overprivileged.
Virtually the entire planet is becoming "flyover country" at this rate. BTW, you know that term was made up by an American right-wing think tank as a strawman putdown with which to villainize leftists, right?
How, precisely, do you propose to diffuse income over everywhere? Rivers and coasts have been the rich places throughout human history. Getting a UBI to keep the poor afloat is hard enough, without some cockamamie scheme to demand that the Smythe-Worthingtons live in whatever empty place on top of that.
Perhaps offer tax incentives to companies based on their geographical spread. Being packed into one campus like Google would be the most heavily taxed scenario, and being spread thinly everywhere would be ideal and offer the greatest tax advantage. I'm not asking wealthy people to move to the boonies, I'm asking companies to offer employment in the boonies so that there might be more wealthy people there and less where all the other wealthy people are. Otherwise you get the runaway positive feedback loop that's turned San Francisco into what it is today.
You yourself note the presence of a significant poor population in California itself. Maybe the secessionists are more worked up about rural theocrats using their greater voting power to impose draconian bullshit? Marijuana would have been legal decades ago if it wasn't for the effort to make being a hippie a criminal offense.
I could buy that if the calls for secession were coming from the hippies instead of the hipsters. I haven't seen nearly as much talk about marijuana legalization surrounding the Calexit debate as talk of immigration & labor policy and tech regulation. The spokesmen for it aren't exactly a bunch of free-spirited longhairs either.
This is an excellent example of why to avoid and diffuse geographic income concentration. When a high concentration of wealthy workers are gathered into one region, they'll soon want to secede so that they can live in a country free of poor people. The super-rich have options like Monaco, St. Bart's, and ships like The World and Utopia, but wealthy workers can't afford these so they go for secession.
You see similar secessionist urges coming from Silicon Valley for the same reason. No word on what they plan to do with their large homeless population though, perhaps they'd make it a law of their new country that anyone below a certain net worth would be exiled? No word on who will clean the toilets etc. either. Maybe they'll have very loose immigrant labor policies so that people can commute across the border?
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and while it may even be financially possible to do so due to increased productivity, most people tend to go a bit squirrelly when they feel they have no purpose in life.
Yeah, what will people do if they didn't have to grind away at meaningless jobs in soul-sucking cube farms or miserable retail environments for shitty pay? Take up a hobby that's personally meaningful and fulfilling or some shit?
I assume he intends to pay people for being smart, otherwise I'm not sure what these people are supposed to do with their new education.
Maybe become professional criminals? That's one scenario I've imagined for a world of mass-unemployment that could work. A select few have jobs with astronomical pay and the masses live off of excess money stolen from the employed caste, and they arrive at a sort of symbiosis where the tolerated existence of the vast crime economy staves off any kind of catastrophic reckoning event.
Reader joshtops shares an incredible story about how thousands of farmers in India are making use of AI and other technologies provided by Microsoft to ensure that they plow the field and sow the seeds at the right time. Prior to this, they were relying on their traditional instincts, which many of them say, had failed them in the recent years. From the story:
In the US, people are moving from using science and technology to relying on their traditional instincts, which are failing them in recent years.
First they bow out of the renewable energy industry to give the rest of the world a head start, and next the electric car industry, how kind of them! #MAGA - Making America Generous Again!
In one incident Chen described, a 15-year-old refused to tell Barksdale the name of his new girlfriend; Barksdale broke into the teen's Google Voice account, listened to messages to get the name, then taunted him with it and threatened to call her.
First this guy and then James Damore, Google hires some real winners...
Thank you, kind hero, for 11 minutes of calm peace and quiet. This will go down in history as the second best moment of Trump's presidency, after the lulztastic childish temper tantrum that will ensue when he gets impeached late next year.
You can find ads from criminal enterprises looking to hire fall guys like this on Craigslist. The fall guy's job is just to sign some papers and handle mail...
It's funny that very few racists are smart enough to be racist properly. It requires good knowledge of history and anthropology to know where to direct the irrational hatred.
Maybe if Razer would design a nice addon slider keyboard that worked well (many are available for the iPhone, but that's a silly toy) it could be a decent compromise. If it did have a mechanical keyboard I'd be preordering one right now.
The lack of a headphone jack isn't ideal, but with my latest phone I've only used it once, and that was because the bluetooth wasn't working at the time due to a software problem.
That's not a Bluetooth problem, that's a modern headphones problem.
Not necessarily:
https://www.lifewire.com/what-...
How about this?
http://www.theurbanclimatologi...
All the best evidence says the losses will exceed the gains, especially when the limitations imposed by our built-up civilization are considered.
And you think that your best-case scenario gains could possibly make up for loss of arable land?
This tired old nonsense again?
https://www.skepticalscience.c...
Bring a fresh argument next time. If the climate conspiracy blogs can cook up any.
"CO2 is plant food," a stupid argument to use in favor of global warming considering CO2's other negative effects - especially the reduction in arable land, isn't even right in itself.
More accurately, CO2 is plant junk food. Higher CO2 levels produce less nutritious crops:
http://www.nature.com/nature/j...
I'm guessing the VPN Package is the most expensive.
LOL how incredibly privileged you must be to believe this. You greatly overestimate not only the number and quality of jobs available, but the number of employers who won't instantly circle-file any application that doesn't list a college degree (of the specific level they're looking for - you could be overqualified just as easily as you could be underqualified). You have a libertarian's child's understanding of the job market and I'm guessing no Gen. Y friends who aren't similarly overprivileged.
Virtually the entire planet is becoming "flyover country" at this rate. BTW, you know that term was made up by an American right-wing think tank as a strawman putdown with which to villainize leftists, right?
How, precisely, do you propose to diffuse income over everywhere? Rivers and coasts have been the rich places throughout human history. Getting a UBI to keep the poor afloat is hard enough, without some cockamamie scheme to demand that the Smythe-Worthingtons live in whatever empty place on top of that.
Perhaps offer tax incentives to companies based on their geographical spread. Being packed into one campus like Google would be the most heavily taxed scenario, and being spread thinly everywhere would be ideal and offer the greatest tax advantage. I'm not asking wealthy people to move to the boonies, I'm asking companies to offer employment in the boonies so that there might be more wealthy people there and less where all the other wealthy people are. Otherwise you get the runaway positive feedback loop that's turned San Francisco into what it is today.
You yourself note the presence of a significant poor population in California itself. Maybe the secessionists are more worked up about rural theocrats using their greater voting power to impose draconian bullshit? Marijuana would have been legal decades ago if it wasn't for the effort to make being a hippie a criminal offense.
I could buy that if the calls for secession were coming from the hippies instead of the hipsters. I haven't seen nearly as much talk about marijuana legalization surrounding the Calexit debate as talk of immigration & labor policy and tech regulation. The spokesmen for it aren't exactly a bunch of free-spirited longhairs either.
Hehehe I see what you did there ;-)
This is an excellent example of why to avoid and diffuse geographic income concentration. When a high concentration of wealthy workers are gathered into one region, they'll soon want to secede so that they can live in a country free of poor people. The super-rich have options like Monaco, St. Bart's, and ships like The World and Utopia, but wealthy workers can't afford these so they go for secession.
You see similar secessionist urges coming from Silicon Valley for the same reason. No word on what they plan to do with their large homeless population though, perhaps they'd make it a law of their new country that anyone below a certain net worth would be exiled? No word on who will clean the toilets etc. either. Maybe they'll have very loose immigrant labor policies so that people can commute across the border?
AKA "The Xbox defense"
If you want to look like Tomb Raider 1's Lara Croft, you might as well leave them in the box :-P
Exactly. Another example of bigotry in, bigotry out with AI.