It's true that GM car sales have declined to the point that GM doesn't want to be in the business any more. That's because Toyota and Honda captured the US car market by focusing on quality. Toyota and Honda use the same robotic process as GM.
On the other hand, GM's truck business is doing fine. Is this segment less automated than cars?
No, not the mechanical thing itself. Robots are expensive to integrate into a process.
Buy an industrial robot for, say, $10,000. It will cost many times that to train it to do the job you want it to do. Then, if the job changes, you have to train it again. And again.
We're nowhere near being able to get robots to take over jobs that are not repetitive and routine.
It's not about morality. Money is simply a medium of exchange.
If you have something I want, and I have something you want, we can trade. If you have something I want, and I don't have something you want, we have a problem. Money solves this problem because it can be exchanged for anything.
"Something" could be a thing, or it could be labor. That's why we work for money, we are trading our time/work for money. Money isn't really a thing in itself. It represents the value of something we want to trade.
If we start giving away money for free, it will become worthless, because I no longer need to give up something to get it. We don't value things that don't cost us. It's human nature.
This is why we need jobs...work is the thing of value that we give up, in order to get money.
How can you test UBI without a universal test? Any test that gives money to a subset of people isn't universal, and introduces some kind of criteria that determines who gets it and who doesn't, thus invalidating the concept, and the test.
So shall we test it by giving everyone money? For how long? What if it flops? Once you start giving away things, it's really, really hard to stop. But you're still out a tremendous amount of money. Yes, YOU are the source of the government's money, which UBI people want to give away. It's not magic.
Fortnite is a fad. Hardly anybody outside of the gamersphere has even heard of it. My aunt in Kansas certainly hasn't!
Based on published statistics, Pokemon Go had twice as many players as Fortnite, but where is Pokemon Go now? Yeah, it's still around, but you don't see people wondering aimlessly around hunting for pokemon any more.
Fortnite won't be any different. If you're a Fortnite enthusiast, this article makes sense. To the rest of us, it's just another fad, or something we've never even heard of.
Most of us wouldn't pay for two-day shipping if we had to add extra money to each order. But as a subscription, we pay about the same amount of money over the course of a year.
If you had paid for two day shipping on a specific order, and it didn't arrive in two days, you get your upcharge fee back. But since it's a subscription, all you get is a note saying "we're sorry."
There is no way to make a wise $6 million purchase of ANYTHING in just a few days. It takes time to carry out due diligence. This airport management is clearly incompetent, unless the story should have said they BEGAN the process of spending the money.
When I finished school, I moved to where the jobs were, and to where I could afford to live. That was 700 miles, in my case. I owned only a car and a bean bag. I slept on a cheap air mattress in an inexpensive apartment. I wasn't upset about this, it was just temporary until I was able to earn enough money for something better.
These days, people don't want to move for a better standard of living. Instead, they feel entitled.
These poor RV dwellers have made a choice. They value the job or the location more than they value having a house in a less expensive part of the country. Why do the rest of us have to impose our values on them?
Zoning laws in the Bay Area are so strict that affordable housing cannot be built anywhere near tech giant headquarters. Relax zoning, and you'll see the price of housing come done. But then, that would make all the current owners angry, so that won't happen.
Clearly, if 5 days are better than 6, and 4 days are better than 5, why stop there? How about a 0 day work week! We'd all have so little stress, we'd get everything done in a snap!
The questions listed are the types of questions these "assistants" are designed to answer. Go off the beaten path, and you get much worse results.
For example, ask: "What street am I on?" "What city am I in?" "How many people are in my contact list?" "How many miles did I travel yesterday?" "When is my next dentist appointment?"
Interesting thought experiment, but it makes an assumption that is incorrect: that there is only one pyramid.
The first pyramid (industrial revolution) has reached its peak. We've gone from an economy where 90%+ of workers were farmers or factory workers, to now, where less than 5% do these jobs.
But we have a new pyramid: computing. In the beginning, programming was labor intensive. It's becoming less and less so.
Other pyramids include healthcare and business processes.
As we reach the top of each pyramid, other brand new jobs are invented, forming the base of a new pyramid.
These days, people eat out more than ever. This was unheard-of 50 years ago. Eating out back then was a luxury. Now, a lot of people barely know how to cook, they eat out so much. How do you figure that nobody can afford restaurant food?
The biggest problem we have today is that labor is too expensive! That's why it pays for stores to spend big bucks on robots, because labor costs are so high. Robots aren't cheap!
A century ago, people had to save up to buy things like shoes. Today, things are cheap and labor is expensive. It will take a LOT of automation to bring down the price of labor to the point that it has "no value."
Whole Foods was destroying itself anyway, with or without Amazon. It takes a lot of marketing effort to get people to spend a 50%-100% premium price for things. Apple has figured out how to do this. Whole Foods not quite as well.
Your friend has had better luck with her hardware than I have. It's rare for a computer to last more than about 5 years without starting to get flaky. My last 32-bit machine died a long time ago!
The Gotthard Base Tunnel is outstanding. Musk's tunnel isn't remarkable for being outstanding, but for being cheaply built. Even at $200 million per mile, the Gotthard Base Tunnel cost 20 times more than Musk's tunnel. This price difference could make a huge difference for cities wanting to build subways or road tunnels.
Well, sort of. Wired headphones tend to develop crackling static when the wires get jostled. The wires often do break when used for a while. I'm no fan of Bluetooth headphones, but wired headphones do have their own issues.
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And MAMR will beat ROCK.
When its too big to fail.
Oh wait...
That was 2008. Nothing went well economically in 2008, in case you've forgotten.
You assume there IS a decline. I don't see one.
https://media.gm.com/media/us/...
Why are we picking on GM's decline, such as it is? If robots were the cause, wouldn't all the manufacturers be suffering the same fate?
It's true that GM car sales have declined to the point that GM doesn't want to be in the business any more. That's because Toyota and Honda captured the US car market by focusing on quality. Toyota and Honda use the same robotic process as GM.
On the other hand, GM's truck business is doing fine. Is this segment less automated than cars?
No, not the mechanical thing itself. Robots are expensive to integrate into a process.
Buy an industrial robot for, say, $10,000. It will cost many times that to train it to do the job you want it to do. Then, if the job changes, you have to train it again. And again.
We're nowhere near being able to get robots to take over jobs that are not repetitive and routine.
It's not about morality. Money is simply a medium of exchange.
If you have something I want, and I have something you want, we can trade.
If you have something I want, and I don't have something you want, we have a problem. Money solves this problem because it can be exchanged for anything.
"Something" could be a thing, or it could be labor. That's why we work for money, we are trading our time/work for money. Money isn't really a thing in itself. It represents the value of something we want to trade.
If we start giving away money for free, it will become worthless, because I no longer need to give up something to get it. We don't value things that don't cost us. It's human nature.
This is why we need jobs...work is the thing of value that we give up, in order to get money.
How can you test UBI without a universal test? Any test that gives money to a subset of people isn't universal, and introduces some kind of criteria that determines who gets it and who doesn't, thus invalidating the concept, and the test.
So shall we test it by giving everyone money? For how long? What if it flops? Once you start giving away things, it's really, really hard to stop. But you're still out a tremendous amount of money. Yes, YOU are the source of the government's money, which UBI people want to give away. It's not magic.
...but you're not going to haul sheets of plywood, or kids to a party, or anyone over 50 in the back seat, for that matter.
Sure, build a browser with less power, and you'll get more efficiency. Good luck with all the broken sites you'll encounter!
Fortnite is a fad. Hardly anybody outside of the gamersphere has even heard of it. My aunt in Kansas certainly hasn't!
Based on published statistics, Pokemon Go had twice as many players as Fortnite, but where is Pokemon Go now? Yeah, it's still around, but you don't see people wondering aimlessly around hunting for pokemon any more.
Fortnite won't be any different. If you're a Fortnite enthusiast, this article makes sense. To the rest of us, it's just another fad, or something we've never even heard of.
Most of us wouldn't pay for two-day shipping if we had to add extra money to each order. But as a subscription, we pay about the same amount of money over the course of a year.
If you had paid for two day shipping on a specific order, and it didn't arrive in two days, you get your upcharge fee back. But since it's a subscription, all you get is a note saying "we're sorry."
Amazon wins.
There is no way to make a wise $6 million purchase of ANYTHING in just a few days. It takes time to carry out due diligence. This airport management is clearly incompetent, unless the story should have said they BEGAN the process of spending the money.
When I finished school, I moved to where the jobs were, and to where I could afford to live. That was 700 miles, in my case. I owned only a car and a bean bag. I slept on a cheap air mattress in an inexpensive apartment. I wasn't upset about this, it was just temporary until I was able to earn enough money for something better.
These days, people don't want to move for a better standard of living. Instead, they feel entitled.
These poor RV dwellers have made a choice. They value the job or the location more than they value having a house in a less expensive part of the country. Why do the rest of us have to impose our values on them?
Zoning laws in the Bay Area are so strict that affordable housing cannot be built anywhere near tech giant headquarters. Relax zoning, and you'll see the price of housing come done. But then, that would make all the current owners angry, so that won't happen.
And we see how well THAT worked!
https://www.forbes.com/sites/c...
Clearly, if 5 days are better than 6, and 4 days are better than 5, why stop there? How about a 0 day work week! We'd all have so little stress, we'd get everything done in a snap!
The questions listed are the types of questions these "assistants" are designed to answer. Go off the beaten path, and you get much worse results.
For example, ask:
"What street am I on?"
"What city am I in?"
"How many people are in my contact list?"
"How many miles did I travel yesterday?"
"When is my next dentist appointment?"
Interesting thought experiment, but it makes an assumption that is incorrect: that there is only one pyramid.
The first pyramid (industrial revolution) has reached its peak. We've gone from an economy where 90%+ of workers were farmers or factory workers, to now, where less than 5% do these jobs.
But we have a new pyramid: computing. In the beginning, programming was labor intensive. It's becoming less and less so.
Other pyramids include healthcare and business processes.
As we reach the top of each pyramid, other brand new jobs are invented, forming the base of a new pyramid.
We'll never reach the ultimate pinnacle.
These days, people eat out more than ever. This was unheard-of 50 years ago. Eating out back then was a luxury. Now, a lot of people barely know how to cook, they eat out so much. How do you figure that nobody can afford restaurant food?
When labor has no value?
The biggest problem we have today is that labor is too expensive! That's why it pays for stores to spend big bucks on robots, because labor costs are so high. Robots aren't cheap!
A century ago, people had to save up to buy things like shoes. Today, things are cheap and labor is expensive. It will take a LOT of automation to bring down the price of labor to the point that it has "no value."
Whole Foods was destroying itself anyway, with or without Amazon. It takes a lot of marketing effort to get people to spend a 50%-100% premium price for things. Apple has figured out how to do this. Whole Foods not quite as well.
Delivery isn't as expensive as you seem to think. Pizza delivery happens everywhere, for not that much money.
If a driver makes $10 an hour, and delivers two orders an hour, the fee would be about $5.
Your friend has had better luck with her hardware than I have. It's rare for a computer to last more than about 5 years without starting to get flaky. My last 32-bit machine died a long time ago!
The Gotthard Base Tunnel is outstanding. Musk's tunnel isn't remarkable for being outstanding, but for being cheaply built. Even at $200 million per mile, the Gotthard Base Tunnel cost 20 times more than Musk's tunnel. This price difference could make a huge difference for cities wanting to build subways or road tunnels.
Well, sort of. Wired headphones tend to develop crackling static when the wires get jostled. The wires often do break when used for a while. I'm no fan of Bluetooth headphones, but wired headphones do have their own issues.