Which isn't a problem considering that the pilot is inside the cockpit and technically, when you stand next to him and could read his hand crib sheet, you don't need it anymore.
We're automating driving vehicles as we talk, and swinging hammers has been automated ages ago. What's left is painting houses, which is easy enough that in this economy most people will try to DIY before hiring a professional.
That's exactly the point. These people with low mental and/or physical capacities cannot be taught a trade that isn't being automated away as we speak, or has already suffered the fate long ago.
The problem is that people aren't fully fungible. You can't take someone out of job A and put him into job B. With increasing automation, the demands jobs put onto people increase. Physically, psychologically and most of all intellectually.
300 years ago, someone "stupid" had no problem finding a job. You needed a lot of people whose mental capacities don't really go beyond the ability to dig a trench or carry stuff around. These jobs vanished first. These people found new jobs in the early factories where you weren't really that challenged when you put the same screw on the same socket again and again on the conveyor.
Today's job market has no use for these people anymore. And the pressure increases. Yes, there will be jobs. But the requirements to be able to make them goes up with every generation of automation that takes away more and more jobs that couldn't be done by robots before.
We're at the point now where automated system are capable of making decisions based on facts. Yes, we're about to automate management. Provided management is stupid enough to let it happen.
And what are we going to do with these unemployable idiots, then?
In my experience, it's a mix of stupidity and envy. People are stupid enough to do jobs they don't like, then envy those that simply don't play the rat race game. Instead of simply saying that they don't want to be idiots anymore, they complain that others aren't as stupid as they are.
One big difference, though: Outside the US and a few Middle East countries, people don't believe the bullshit about a "divine plan" anymore that puts them into misery with a promise for a better afterlife, like they did in medieval times.
Pravda... the newspaper where you can read pearls like this one:
"In a comparison between the economies of the USA and the USSR, the USSR came in on a respectable second place while the USA could only muster the economic power to come in second to last".
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Which isn't a problem considering that the pilot is inside the cockpit and technically, when you stand next to him and could read his hand crib sheet, you don't need it anymore.
Flight attendants, on the other hand...
And a code to key in that does nothing but tell the people inside the cockpit that the person outside knows the code isn't a joke?
The obligatory xkcd.
Where we declare coal to be a good thing and diesel engines to be a bad thing.
Maybe we should build cars with steam engines? Would that be Zeitgeist enough for you?
Population control?
Name one, a single one, totalitarian government that wanted to reduce the number of subjects it controls...
Dude, comparing holocaust victims to smoking victims, of all the parallels...
But a lot of people will keep saying that it's a governmental cow altogether.
You joke, but you'd be surprised how much critical infrastructure is insecure simply because "Hey, nobody can get here anyway".
Sorry, I forgot, Americans live in plywood boxes instead of houses.
If you had been talking about bricklayers, I would probably have understood.
Did shipping jobs overseas backfire?
Here's the tiniest violin, made in the USA, playing just for you.
I don't travel to religious nutjob countries. I don't even visit the US anymore.
Basically, you have the choice between being taken down by one of their fucked up updates or by the malware.
Pick your poison. No, survival is not a choice. Unless you dump that shit.
We're automating driving vehicles as we talk, and swinging hammers has been automated ages ago. What's left is painting houses, which is easy enough that in this economy most people will try to DIY before hiring a professional.
That's exactly the point. These people with low mental and/or physical capacities cannot be taught a trade that isn't being automated away as we speak, or has already suffered the fate long ago.
Concerning religion? Probably all with the noteworthy exception of the Vatican.
As an Irish citizen, he can freely move into another EU country with saner laws.
Hey, give him credit, he managed to find sources aside of Breitbart.
Sorry, but no. The most prolific reason for bashing each other's skull in was the question who has the cooler imaginary friend.
Most certainly it's possible. Just watch:
I declare myself an Imam.
See? It's easy!
Wait, there's someone at my door, brb...
If you can't handle the heat, stay out of the kitchen.
The problem is that people aren't fully fungible. You can't take someone out of job A and put him into job B. With increasing automation, the demands jobs put onto people increase. Physically, psychologically and most of all intellectually.
300 years ago, someone "stupid" had no problem finding a job. You needed a lot of people whose mental capacities don't really go beyond the ability to dig a trench or carry stuff around. These jobs vanished first. These people found new jobs in the early factories where you weren't really that challenged when you put the same screw on the same socket again and again on the conveyor.
Today's job market has no use for these people anymore. And the pressure increases. Yes, there will be jobs. But the requirements to be able to make them goes up with every generation of automation that takes away more and more jobs that couldn't be done by robots before.
We're at the point now where automated system are capable of making decisions based on facts. Yes, we're about to automate management. Provided management is stupid enough to let it happen.
And what are we going to do with these unemployable idiots, then?
In my experience, it's a mix of stupidity and envy. People are stupid enough to do jobs they don't like, then envy those that simply don't play the rat race game. Instead of simply saying that they don't want to be idiots anymore, they complain that others aren't as stupid as they are.
One big difference, though: Outside the US and a few Middle East countries, people don't believe the bullshit about a "divine plan" anymore that puts them into misery with a promise for a better afterlife, like they did in medieval times.
They're soviet now again?
And when did Putin change his name to "lingo"?
That only shows that the glorious Soviet news were ahead of its times!
Pravda... the newspaper where you can read pearls like this one:
"In a comparison between the economies of the USA and the USSR, the USSR came in on a respectable second place while the USA could only muster the economic power to come in second to last".