I am mind boggled that even banks do not allow complex passwords. The use of long phrases can help. For example "Phil and Bill went up the hill to fetch a bucket of blood1938." should be really hard to crack. The ASC11 symbols are also a great way to build a really complex password. I can understand why small companies do not have software that is long or complex password tolerant but major businesses should all be so equipped. Long phrase passwords should require so much effort to crack that almost nobody would even try and they can be really easy to remember as well.
Obviously the human operated forklifts used in warehouses will have very little demand in the near future. That probably means that forklifts designed to work on delivery or job sites will surely see a huge increase in prise.
It is not just order takers that will be out of luck. Back of store employees will also be eliminated. The idea that more food can be served with automated order takers is just nonsense. First, very few dinners operate at full capacity. There may be a lunch rush or a supper rush where in theory one could make an extra sale or two with automated servers and order takers. But the fact is that the slow periods in an eatery dominate the day as well as the evening. Spending money to serve a small number of extra patrons during rush hour rarely would make sense.
At this time a dinner requires one responsible person to act as a sort of hall monitor to deal with problems and one or two workers to swamp out the toilets, wipe off the glass doors and pick up trash in the parking lots. The only thing holding back automation in fast food are this months expenses. There is an expense issue in making a transfer to more automated services. Being able to take a temporary hit on real income is a bit of a foreign notion to many people invested in the fast food industry. What I expect is that an investor that owns three or four normal dinners to open up a store built from the ground up to be automated and using profits from the normal dinners to support the new operation until it runs smoothly. Or we might see automated eateries operate on college campuses where the college is the investor and can use a long term, highly profitable enterprise which can also be featured as a sort of advertisement to solicit new business from students looking to be included in high technology environments.
Christianity was often violent, expansionist and discriminatory in Christian history. And the faith could be used as an evil tool. For example slaves who were fed a certain diet of Christian teachings tended not to rebel and kill their masters and ministers were used to help keep slaves docile. And that is not remote history. Today hate groups such as the KKK often are a major part of Baptist churches. Islam is under going about what Christianity was under going in 1850. Given time the problem will moderate itself.
Although we will have to use a huge, heavy hammer to get people to confront the issue as they are in total denial now, it remains easy to solve. Frankly socialism is the only form of government that can adapt to advanced technology. Combine socialism with a good, minimum income for all people and the problem is solved. Businesses will be taxed to support the public and not just the government. The people can only buy product if they have money. The people vote for the survival of businesses by where they choose to spend their money. And the pay out system can carry both rewards and penalties. For example you keep a very low electricity demand every month so the government increases your weekly check. If you have a high electric bill your pay goes down. The same for use of gasoline or diesel fuel. Commit some sort of violation and your pay will go down for a set period. do something good for the community and your pay increases. The rich will resist this at first but they will get on board when they confront the fact that there is no other option. We could even diminish income according to wealth accumulation. The values, morals and basic beliefs of the masses are about to be changed.
In this universe of strange consequences I foresee people making a legal claim of language disability and expecting a welfare like program to support them as they can not work due to a language deficit. There are even some people who are mute who could communicate through an app on their phone with customers. Should we remove them from the work place due to language difficulties? Then there is the tiny problem of the US having no official, national language. Can you imagine a ghetto youth in Chicago trying to understand the queens English when his native tongue is a very weird ebonic argot.
Here we have a situation where people protest that the truth will be known. Do people want the right to lie in divorce court or to lie to insurance companies or to lie about who caused a wreck? It seems as if the American public fears its own stink. Have we reached the point at which America can not survive without lies being a standard norm of behavior? Also keep it in mind that truth works in all directions. If you own stock in an insurance company people that lie are stealing your money. It may be your wife that can't explain why she parks at Tom's house when she is supposed to be at work. You may well get child custody if you offer strong evidence of her adultery. The problem with wanting to live a covert life is that you give the same privilege to everyone else and at some point your kids figure out that you are full of lies and they get all messed up and turn to drugs. Maybe it is time to insist upon truth from all people.
As long as a computer and its software is set up to solve specific problems they already exceed human abilities. Common, inexpensive chess software can destroy 99% of players and if one has a high power rig it will destroy any chess champion. Now imagine a computer set up to only seek rewards for opening new bank accounts of various sizes. A ten thousand dollar savings account may gain you a five hundred dollar bonus if you keep the account active for 90 days. If you turn that over four times a year you would get 20% in bonuses plus whatever interest the accounts earn in a year. And those accounts are insured so you have no risk compared to buying stocks and bonds. It goes without saying that you could have multiples of $10,000 to invest in such a scheme in banks all over the nation.
One might also have a program that searches for distress sales for housing. Yes it would be wonderful to have one computer that can do it all and fit in your shirt pocket. But as far as functional intelligence computers already have humans beat. A few years back thee were AI programs that featured self learning from breeding other programs together and mating the best with the best over generations. Those programs became able to find quality solutions that humans could not understand the types of logic and rules by which the programs operated. Yet only these programs could find the solutions. In the New testament there is a remark that in the late days 'We will be confounded by our complexity.". i think we are already both confounded and enlightened by our complexity.
Since we have many uses for heat maybe w could capture the heat exhausted from that system as well as use it for cooling. And we just might be able to collect water from that cooled air as well.
Yes Uber required and still requires deep pockets to get completely up and running. And investors will give those big bucks simply because the potential profits will be so astounding. The only real danger to uber is that having paved the way for a very new mode of travel another company may receive the benefits as they did not have to bear the initial deep costs of starting up the new technology. Uber paved the financial road not only for itself but also for its competition. And now drivers' pay checks will be taken out of the loop with self driving Uber cars. Fifty cents worth of gasoline can turn into a $15. dollar ride.
Robots and automation will replace almost 100% of human workers. And there are some really odd things to think about. Today we talk about the problem of cheap labor in other nations. And that should be a dead issue. Now, it is can my nation's robots work better and cheaper than your nations robots. Entire industries will collapse. And we are also on the verge of the really huge, next big thing. Nobody knows exactly what it will be but it is time. We have a pile of very powerful technologies that are very close to emerging as the various elements are so close to blooming. It just might be a breakthrough in AI that suddenly makes computers far more powerful than anything we imagine at this moment.
I have no clue as to the numbers or mass of these bacteria that munch on rocks beneath our surface. But just maybe they might displace algae as being the predominant life form on Earth. It has been said in the past that an alien species might see algae as the significant life form on Earth and only be interested with communications with algae. Even termites might have more effect upon our world than humans.
Many baby monitors are so powerful that they effectively cover the entire home and pick up all kinds of adult conversations. A scanner and a bit of extra effort and you can tune in and learn a whole lot about what goes on in some families. Read that as whose baby is it. When daddys away mommies often have numerous "friends".
In the 1960s there were false answers listed in the back of some text books to catch students who simply copied answers rather than actually thinking out the solution to a problem. Actually a similar tactic could be employed to catch teachers by placing false information in the texts. I have seen professors with lofty credentials repeat a false fact that they were taught when they were in college and it tends to get handed down from generation to generation. the reason why is quite simple. Even at the Ph.D. level many professors have never actually done any original research. Their research is limited to studying what professors that came before them accepted in their training. This exists due to the depth of study is limited as professors might have to spend months on some rather obscure information that often was not available a few years ago.
Machinist frequently use a tool called a boring bar. You might use such a tool to bore out a rifle barrel for example. But machinist often are grumpy and drink to much at very boring bars and come to work and make mistakes when using a boring bar. And then we wonder why foreigners find English such a difficult language to learn.
The ethics priests need to take a break. Obviously any cure for any disease or condition has spin off effects that may or may not be considered negative by some people. Suppose for example we find a genetic cure for schizophrenia that persists through out generations. Obviously many people with such a condition would never be born. How the heck can anyone weigh the horrors of that illness against the potential joy or contributions that a schizophrenic might experience or create/ How about manic depression? Or how about severe mental retardation? Some people really love their handicapped children. Does that somehow imply that we should not prevent mental retardation? How the blue heck does anyone propose to carefully weigh the results of eliminating any illness? After all if we let smallpox lose on the population it would reduce traffic congestion. Who dares define what is negative or positive for the world ?
People who drive drunk lose the ability to coordinate and she apparently could not use proper judgment in her use of the accelerator pedal. It may not have mattered a bit what vehicle she was in. A bicycle or a motor scooter with very slow acceleration can kill a drunk as easily as a Tesla. I am sorry for the father's grief but Tesla should sue him for this nonsense.
Police cars often have devices that auto record all license plates near the squad cars and run checks on them. It is a great way to find stolen cars and motorcycles. Naturally such systems can be attached to buildings or poles or whatever and in a way they do have a record of where your car has been. I do not see it as a privacy issue. If I am in public view anyone has the right to snap a picture of me. Are we at the point of saying that police must have less rights than all other members of the public? Obviously we all will and must have less privacy as population sizes grow and threats become likely to produce really large consequences.
Clear back in the mid 1980 era we had engineers on domestic flights that were held at airports until FBI folks could bring in an engineer to inspect the circuits with a fear that we could be handing over technology to foreign agents. It was an odd sort of thing as apparently the fear was that an engineer could hand over a circuit board while in flight, to a person who would transfer to another flight leaving the US. Usually our people were carrying either computer boards or robotic boards, none of which were in violation of any guarded secrets.
Frankly i find it amusing that anyone thinks there is any option other than a basic income for all people. I under stand that there is a huge pile of beliefs and platitudes that will put many minds in opposition to a free income. But when human labor, either intellectual or physical is no longer needed there is very little choice. We can list a bunch of vital issues that relate to simple miseries or fears that are caused by poverty. Alcoholism, mental illness, sexual crimes, drug addictions, mad bombing such as the Oklahoma City Court House, armed robberies, economic crimes and many more all are related to people simply being unhappy. There is a huge tax issue due to these unhappy or frightened people acting out. Now imagine a system in which more and more people are in fear of sleeping on the streets, going hungry, or needing medical care that they can not get. That creates a climate of a brewing and ultra violent revolution and also opens paths for our enemies to take over our nation. Today truck drivers know full well that their trade is quickly ending as do taxi drivers and delivery people. Construction people are still cloudy on the notion that their trade will vanish. Factory workers have already been sort of slaughtered. Retraining is a dead end. The new trade will vanish all too soon. Teachers are now being eliminated by computer led class rooms. In some cases lawyers are also already being replaced by computers. Surgeries are now done by robotic means. No trade is exempt and unemployment will soar. In real poverty the poor become dangerous and will not silently starve to death in some dark corner.
So one or two of these modified mice escape to other nations and the world wide existence of mice is extinguished. Many creatures feed on mice as a basic part of their diet.
First all workers need unions. Unions are at times the only protection for workers as government agencies have been crippled by right wing politics. However when it comes to assembly line workers $25 per hour seems like too much pay. I do not feel that mandatory over time should be allowed by law.
Further these auto workers need to think for a bit. They may notice that companies often leave the US due to excessive costs of labor. And then we have the fact that Mr. Musk understands automation and efficiency and that given a motive a lot of jobs could vanish if his factories automate a bit more. We are entering an era in which human employment is vanishing. It is a foolish time to push for higher wages.
Our nation has people with many different lifestyles. I dislike the notion that we must always show deference to the more conservative types. I see nothing wrong with having string bikini models passing out literature or answering quotations about a product. Nudity or near nudity should not upset anyone including young children. I doubt that many people have not had a toddler walk by a TV when a very graphic scene was on the screen. the young ones show very little interest and don't appear to even notice such things going on. If they did and asked a difficult question one could simply say that some people like that sort of thing and that should be enough to cover the situation. The prudes simply have too much to say. For example when birth control pills became available many people fought like crazy to make them illegal. And even from their view point birth control stopped tens of millions of abortions. It really makes one wonder what the heck the prudes really want in life.
It is known that if the income is substantial that it actually saves money foe a governmental system. My only reservation is that Kenya may not have an honest enough government to actually put the money in the hands of the intended recipient. In the US, in many areas, it is assumed that a person in deep poverty will work under the worst conditions or starve to death quietly in a dark corner. That is a fantasy. people in poverty will steal, sell drugs, commit armed robberies or even murder to get by. Things are so twisted that if a person is suffering enough poverty a smart move is to build some sort of history of addiction and by doing so get fed and sheltered in a rehab, hospital; or even a jail. Fort Lauderdale has seen the extreme edge of this with alcoholics who live in the jails. They get arrested quite deliberately. After a few weeks or months they are put out on the street. They will walk about, see the sites, smell the air and then walk into a restaurant, order a large meal and then not pay the bill in order to get a ride back to the jail. A variant is to walk into a liquor store twist open a bottle and chugalug as much as they dare and have the store owner call the PD to drive them back to the jail. Sometimes they even go back to the same cell or cell block and swap stories about what they did this time. Four arrests a year can get them food, shelter, and medical care for that year. It costs the city a fortune to play the game which pleases the drunks to no end. These folks belong in long term care in a hospital like facility where therapies known to achieve good results can be tried and the inmate protected from their own suicidal type of alcohol abuse. It would actually be cheaper than keeping them in jails with multiple trials etc.. When released these folks are often way too burned out to work and would only be able to survive with a realistic income from the state.
Both for skilled and unskilled labor in the US the demand has always been enormous. Yet the people and most of the companies can not pay a decent wage to workers. If we have any delusions about supply and demand let's confront a bit of reality. Just how do we excuse not paying lofty wages to laborers when the demand is so enormous. For almost all of us we would perish faster without migrant farm workers than we would if we had no doctors, lawyers or accountants. But the people that labor on our crops almost live in slavery and they die young from that labor as well. We have a total failure of economic justice in America. And it is not new. It has always been that way.
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I am mind boggled that even banks do not allow complex passwords. The use of long phrases can help. For example "Phil and Bill went up the hill to fetch a bucket of blood1938." should be really hard to crack. The ASC11 symbols are also a great way to build a really complex password. I can understand why small companies do not have software that is long or complex password tolerant but major businesses should all be so equipped. Long phrase passwords should require so much effort to crack that almost nobody would even try and they can be really easy to remember as well.
Obviously the human operated forklifts used in warehouses will have very little demand in the near future. That probably means that forklifts designed to work on delivery or job sites will surely see a huge increase in prise.
It is not just order takers that will be out of luck. Back of store employees will also be eliminated. The idea that more food can be served with automated order takers is just nonsense. First, very few dinners operate at full capacity. There may be a lunch rush or a supper rush where in theory one could make an extra sale or two with automated servers and order takers. But the fact is that the slow periods in an eatery dominate the day as well as the evening. Spending money to serve a small number of extra patrons during rush hour rarely would make sense. At this time a dinner requires one responsible person to act as a sort of hall monitor to deal with problems and one or two workers to swamp out the toilets, wipe off the glass doors and pick up trash in the parking lots. The only thing holding back automation in fast food are this months expenses. There is an expense issue in making a transfer to more automated services. Being able to take a temporary hit on real income is a bit of a foreign notion to many people invested in the fast food industry. What I expect is that an investor that owns three or four normal dinners to open up a store built from the ground up to be automated and using profits from the normal dinners to support the new operation until it runs smoothly. Or we might see automated eateries operate on college campuses where the college is the investor and can use a long term, highly profitable enterprise which can also be featured as a sort of advertisement to solicit new business from students looking to be included in high technology environments.
Christianity was often violent, expansionist and discriminatory in Christian history. And the faith could be used as an evil tool. For example slaves who were fed a certain diet of Christian teachings tended not to rebel and kill their masters and ministers were used to help keep slaves docile. And that is not remote history. Today hate groups such as the KKK often are a major part of Baptist churches. Islam is under going about what Christianity was under going in 1850. Given time the problem will moderate itself.
Although we will have to use a huge, heavy hammer to get people to confront the issue as they are in total denial now, it remains easy to solve. Frankly socialism is the only form of government that can adapt to advanced technology. Combine socialism with a good, minimum income for all people and the problem is solved. Businesses will be taxed to support the public and not just the government. The people can only buy product if they have money. The people vote for the survival of businesses by where they choose to spend their money. And the pay out system can carry both rewards and penalties. For example you keep a very low electricity demand every month so the government increases your weekly check. If you have a high electric bill your pay goes down. The same for use of gasoline or diesel fuel. Commit some sort of violation and your pay will go down for a set period. do something good for the community and your pay increases. The rich will resist this at first but they will get on board when they confront the fact that there is no other option. We could even diminish income according to wealth accumulation. The values, morals and basic beliefs of the masses are about to be changed.
In this universe of strange consequences I foresee people making a legal claim of language disability and expecting a welfare like program to support them as they can not work due to a language deficit. There are even some people who are mute who could communicate through an app on their phone with customers. Should we remove them from the work place due to language difficulties? Then there is the tiny problem of the US having no official, national language. Can you imagine a ghetto youth in Chicago trying to understand the queens English when his native tongue is a very weird ebonic argot.
Here we have a situation where people protest that the truth will be known. Do people want the right to lie in divorce court or to lie to insurance companies or to lie about who caused a wreck? It seems as if the American public fears its own stink. Have we reached the point at which America can not survive without lies being a standard norm of behavior? Also keep it in mind that truth works in all directions. If you own stock in an insurance company people that lie are stealing your money. It may be your wife that can't explain why she parks at Tom's house when she is supposed to be at work. You may well get child custody if you offer strong evidence of her adultery. The problem with wanting to live a covert life is that you give the same privilege to everyone else and at some point your kids figure out that you are full of lies and they get all messed up and turn to drugs. Maybe it is time to insist upon truth from all people.
As long as a computer and its software is set up to solve specific problems they already exceed human abilities. Common, inexpensive chess software can destroy 99% of players and if one has a high power rig it will destroy any chess champion. Now imagine a computer set up to only seek rewards for opening new bank accounts of various sizes. A ten thousand dollar savings account may gain you a five hundred dollar bonus if you keep the account active for 90 days. If you turn that over four times a year you would get 20% in bonuses plus whatever interest the accounts earn in a year. And those accounts are insured so you have no risk compared to buying stocks and bonds. It goes without saying that you could have multiples of $10,000 to invest in such a scheme in banks all over the nation. One might also have a program that searches for distress sales for housing. Yes it would be wonderful to have one computer that can do it all and fit in your shirt pocket. But as far as functional intelligence computers already have humans beat. A few years back thee were AI programs that featured self learning from breeding other programs together and mating the best with the best over generations. Those programs became able to find quality solutions that humans could not understand the types of logic and rules by which the programs operated. Yet only these programs could find the solutions. In the New testament there is a remark that in the late days 'We will be confounded by our complexity.". i think we are already both confounded and enlightened by our complexity.
Since we have many uses for heat maybe w could capture the heat exhausted from that system as well as use it for cooling. And we just might be able to collect water from that cooled air as well.
Yes Uber required and still requires deep pockets to get completely up and running. And investors will give those big bucks simply because the potential profits will be so astounding. The only real danger to uber is that having paved the way for a very new mode of travel another company may receive the benefits as they did not have to bear the initial deep costs of starting up the new technology. Uber paved the financial road not only for itself but also for its competition. And now drivers' pay checks will be taken out of the loop with self driving Uber cars. Fifty cents worth of gasoline can turn into a $15. dollar ride.
Robots and automation will replace almost 100% of human workers. And there are some really odd things to think about. Today we talk about the problem of cheap labor in other nations. And that should be a dead issue. Now, it is can my nation's robots work better and cheaper than your nations robots. Entire industries will collapse. And we are also on the verge of the really huge, next big thing. Nobody knows exactly what it will be but it is time. We have a pile of very powerful technologies that are very close to emerging as the various elements are so close to blooming. It just might be a breakthrough in AI that suddenly makes computers far more powerful than anything we imagine at this moment.
I have no clue as to the numbers or mass of these bacteria that munch on rocks beneath our surface. But just maybe they might displace algae as being the predominant life form on Earth. It has been said in the past that an alien species might see algae as the significant life form on Earth and only be interested with communications with algae. Even termites might have more effect upon our world than humans.
Many baby monitors are so powerful that they effectively cover the entire home and pick up all kinds of adult conversations. A scanner and a bit of extra effort and you can tune in and learn a whole lot about what goes on in some families. Read that as whose baby is it. When daddys away mommies often have numerous "friends".
In the 1960s there were false answers listed in the back of some text books to catch students who simply copied answers rather than actually thinking out the solution to a problem. Actually a similar tactic could be employed to catch teachers by placing false information in the texts. I have seen professors with lofty credentials repeat a false fact that they were taught when they were in college and it tends to get handed down from generation to generation. the reason why is quite simple. Even at the Ph.D. level many professors have never actually done any original research. Their research is limited to studying what professors that came before them accepted in their training. This exists due to the depth of study is limited as professors might have to spend months on some rather obscure information that often was not available a few years ago.
Machinist frequently use a tool called a boring bar. You might use such a tool to bore out a rifle barrel for example. But machinist often are grumpy and drink to much at very boring bars and come to work and make mistakes when using a boring bar. And then we wonder why foreigners find English such a difficult language to learn.
The ethics priests need to take a break. Obviously any cure for any disease or condition has spin off effects that may or may not be considered negative by some people. Suppose for example we find a genetic cure for schizophrenia that persists through out generations. Obviously many people with such a condition would never be born. How the heck can anyone weigh the horrors of that illness against the potential joy or contributions that a schizophrenic might experience or create/ How about manic depression? Or how about severe mental retardation? Some people really love their handicapped children. Does that somehow imply that we should not prevent mental retardation? How the blue heck does anyone propose to carefully weigh the results of eliminating any illness? After all if we let smallpox lose on the population it would reduce traffic congestion. Who dares define what is negative or positive for the world ?
People who drive drunk lose the ability to coordinate and she apparently could not use proper judgment in her use of the accelerator pedal. It may not have mattered a bit what vehicle she was in. A bicycle or a motor scooter with very slow acceleration can kill a drunk as easily as a Tesla. I am sorry for the father's grief but Tesla should sue him for this nonsense.
Police cars often have devices that auto record all license plates near the squad cars and run checks on them. It is a great way to find stolen cars and motorcycles. Naturally such systems can be attached to buildings or poles or whatever and in a way they do have a record of where your car has been. I do not see it as a privacy issue. If I am in public view anyone has the right to snap a picture of me. Are we at the point of saying that police must have less rights than all other members of the public? Obviously we all will and must have less privacy as population sizes grow and threats become likely to produce really large consequences.
Clear back in the mid 1980 era we had engineers on domestic flights that were held at airports until FBI folks could bring in an engineer to inspect the circuits with a fear that we could be handing over technology to foreign agents. It was an odd sort of thing as apparently the fear was that an engineer could hand over a circuit board while in flight, to a person who would transfer to another flight leaving the US. Usually our people were carrying either computer boards or robotic boards, none of which were in violation of any guarded secrets.
Frankly i find it amusing that anyone thinks there is any option other than a basic income for all people. I under stand that there is a huge pile of beliefs and platitudes that will put many minds in opposition to a free income. But when human labor, either intellectual or physical is no longer needed there is very little choice. We can list a bunch of vital issues that relate to simple miseries or fears that are caused by poverty. Alcoholism, mental illness, sexual crimes, drug addictions, mad bombing such as the Oklahoma City Court House, armed robberies, economic crimes and many more all are related to people simply being unhappy. There is a huge tax issue due to these unhappy or frightened people acting out. Now imagine a system in which more and more people are in fear of sleeping on the streets, going hungry, or needing medical care that they can not get. That creates a climate of a brewing and ultra violent revolution and also opens paths for our enemies to take over our nation. Today truck drivers know full well that their trade is quickly ending as do taxi drivers and delivery people. Construction people are still cloudy on the notion that their trade will vanish. Factory workers have already been sort of slaughtered. Retraining is a dead end. The new trade will vanish all too soon. Teachers are now being eliminated by computer led class rooms. In some cases lawyers are also already being replaced by computers. Surgeries are now done by robotic means. No trade is exempt and unemployment will soar. In real poverty the poor become dangerous and will not silently starve to death in some dark corner.
So one or two of these modified mice escape to other nations and the world wide existence of mice is extinguished. Many creatures feed on mice as a basic part of their diet.
First all workers need unions. Unions are at times the only protection for workers as government agencies have been crippled by right wing politics. However when it comes to assembly line workers $25 per hour seems like too much pay. I do not feel that mandatory over time should be allowed by law. Further these auto workers need to think for a bit. They may notice that companies often leave the US due to excessive costs of labor. And then we have the fact that Mr. Musk understands automation and efficiency and that given a motive a lot of jobs could vanish if his factories automate a bit more. We are entering an era in which human employment is vanishing. It is a foolish time to push for higher wages.
Our nation has people with many different lifestyles. I dislike the notion that we must always show deference to the more conservative types. I see nothing wrong with having string bikini models passing out literature or answering quotations about a product. Nudity or near nudity should not upset anyone including young children. I doubt that many people have not had a toddler walk by a TV when a very graphic scene was on the screen. the young ones show very little interest and don't appear to even notice such things going on. If they did and asked a difficult question one could simply say that some people like that sort of thing and that should be enough to cover the situation. The prudes simply have too much to say. For example when birth control pills became available many people fought like crazy to make them illegal. And even from their view point birth control stopped tens of millions of abortions. It really makes one wonder what the heck the prudes really want in life.
It is known that if the income is substantial that it actually saves money foe a governmental system. My only reservation is that Kenya may not have an honest enough government to actually put the money in the hands of the intended recipient. In the US, in many areas, it is assumed that a person in deep poverty will work under the worst conditions or starve to death quietly in a dark corner. That is a fantasy. people in poverty will steal, sell drugs, commit armed robberies or even murder to get by. Things are so twisted that if a person is suffering enough poverty a smart move is to build some sort of history of addiction and by doing so get fed and sheltered in a rehab, hospital; or even a jail. Fort Lauderdale has seen the extreme edge of this with alcoholics who live in the jails. They get arrested quite deliberately. After a few weeks or months they are put out on the street. They will walk about, see the sites, smell the air and then walk into a restaurant, order a large meal and then not pay the bill in order to get a ride back to the jail. A variant is to walk into a liquor store twist open a bottle and chugalug as much as they dare and have the store owner call the PD to drive them back to the jail. Sometimes they even go back to the same cell or cell block and swap stories about what they did this time. Four arrests a year can get them food, shelter, and medical care for that year. It costs the city a fortune to play the game which pleases the drunks to no end. These folks belong in long term care in a hospital like facility where therapies known to achieve good results can be tried and the inmate protected from their own suicidal type of alcohol abuse. It would actually be cheaper than keeping them in jails with multiple trials etc.. When released these folks are often way too burned out to work and would only be able to survive with a realistic income from the state.
Both for skilled and unskilled labor in the US the demand has always been enormous. Yet the people and most of the companies can not pay a decent wage to workers. If we have any delusions about supply and demand let's confront a bit of reality. Just how do we excuse not paying lofty wages to laborers when the demand is so enormous. For almost all of us we would perish faster without migrant farm workers than we would if we had no doctors, lawyers or accountants. But the people that labor on our crops almost live in slavery and they die young from that labor as well. We have a total failure of economic justice in America. And it is not new. It has always been that way.