Competition works to produce new medicines and treatments, more accurately, the freedom to pursue and produce and sell new products.
Artificially reducing profits to drug companies (as opposed to insurance companies) impacts this negatively by delaying products. The net result is more deaths as medical tech lags further and further behind where it otherwise would be, like reverse compounded interest.
Mathematically, this swamps lives saved from a government type system as they are equations of a vastly different order.
But the low-paid workers in China had a job. Now they don't.
Sure, but that's a problem Adidas cannot solve by keeping production sites in China. The workers would be replaced by robots in China - there certainly is a reason why German robot manufacturer Kuka was recently acquired by a Chinese company, and you've seen Foxconn replacing workers by robots, too.
I think the global issue of diminishing work due to replacement by robots will more likely be solved when production and consumption happen in the same country, so politicians can see "both sides of the medal" - cause and effect. Producing in country A and selling in country B on the contrary makes it less likely the problems of unemployment are solved.
150 years earlier, when almost everyone lived and worked on a farm: "I think the global issue of diminishing work due to replacment by steam tractors will more likely be solved when politicians can see "both sides of the medal" - cause and effect."
Please, god almighty please, keep politicians away from command and control of the economy.
If it does. History shows layoffs are temporary in the long run of a free economy, though the granularity of the ups and downs may not be to everyone's liking. Hence the safety nets demanded by the population to ameliorate the rough edges of capitalism providing jobs and products.
I suspect this article was posted for political reasons rather than for robot tech reasons.
In Slashdot way back in the year 1900, they had similar articles like "Does the latest steam tractor throw one 2 cent an hour + food laborer out of work? They were political back then, too, even though it was News for Farmers, Stuff that Manures.
All it will take is one person saved by just such an organ grown in an animal, and the idiot pundits and politicians will be swept aside like, what was that thing from the American writers class? Like a spider's legs in a roaring fire!
Well it is kind of like noting banks "have" trillions of dollars in sales when it is housing sales funded by deposits. Or currency exchange, amounting to a trillion a day in "product". That's not the real size of the market which is just a sliver of that.
The market is pushing around other peoples' money, not the value of the money itself.
200 years ago high tech was the steam engine. 200 years from now will be an even greater delta. We shuld no more hamper ourselves than people 200 years ago should have hampered themselves. I would rather live today, at today's tech level, than with a cooler atmosphere and 50 or 100 year older tech level. Or 20.
What happened to massive solar farms producing electricity for hydrogen, as tended by robots who also serve up blueberries the size of softballs for lunch?
And it is not libertarian per se. It was not one of, but the core principle of the founding fathers as they wrote the Constitution -- that the problem with governments has always been the unrestricted power they wield, so here's a government, and here is a list of its powers, and it has no other powers, end of story.
If it wants more, it can go through the deliberately laborious and ponderous supermajority amendment process, precisely to stop the blowing winds of political passion so successfullly wielded by demagogues from a quick takeover.
And the war crime of forcing what are obviously untrained civilians, AKA "Storm Troopers", to run up as human waves to the slaughter, no ability to shoot, and cool looking armor that might as well be tissue paper.
The "right to vote yourself communist" translates to "the all-too common practice of a large chunk of the population following a demagogue into dictatorship."
The dictators they replace are no better (but probably no worse, when you measure actual health and wealth of the average person, and maybe better.) There is little freedom in either case.
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The Star Trek future of infinitely cheap manufacturing and people inventing things as hobbies while living barefoot on farms?
This assumes the AI, or the info fed into it, isn't reported back for some kind of marketing purposes.
Competition works to produce new medicines and treatments, more accurately, the freedom to pursue and produce and sell new products.
Artificially reducing profits to drug companies (as opposed to insurance companies) impacts this negatively by delaying products. The net result is more deaths as medical tech lags further and further behind where it otherwise would be, like reverse compounded interest.
Mathematically, this swamps lives saved from a government type system as they are equations of a vastly different order.
But the low-paid workers in China had a job. Now they don't.
Sure, but that's a problem Adidas cannot solve by keeping production sites in China. The workers would be replaced by robots in China - there certainly is a reason why German robot manufacturer Kuka was recently acquired by a Chinese company, and you've seen Foxconn replacing workers by robots, too.
I think the global issue of diminishing work due to replacement by robots will more likely be solved when production and consumption happen in the same country, so politicians can see "both sides of the medal" - cause and effect. Producing in country A and selling in country B on the contrary makes it less likely the problems of unemployment are solved.
150 years earlier, when almost everyone lived and worked on a farm: "I think the global issue of diminishing work due to replacment by steam tractors will more likely be solved when politicians can see "both sides of the medal" - cause and effect."
Please, god almighty please, keep politicians away from command and control of the economy.
If it does. History shows layoffs are temporary in the long run of a free economy, though the granularity of the ups and downs may not be to everyone's liking. Hence the safety nets demanded by the population to ameliorate the rough edges of capitalism providing jobs and products.
I suspect this article was posted for political reasons rather than for robot tech reasons.
In Slashdot way back in the year 1900, they had similar articles like "Does the latest steam tractor throw one 2 cent an hour + food laborer out of work? They were political back then, too, even though it was News for Farmers, Stuff that Manures.
"I was wondering what it would be like to hire a prostitute."
Nor is the dirt floor existence these jobs, and environmental laxity, provided.
One way or another, union opposition in the wealthy west was opposed to them peasants.
Same was said with assembly lines and mass production over craftsmen, and farm machinery over oxes and farmhands.
Did you know almost everyone lived on a farm 200 years ago, and now just 2% of the population works one?
All you guys, 200 years ago: Oh my god! Farms only need 2% of the work force? Everyone will starve with no jobs!
Machines tookerjerbs!
Nobody is starving in the US -- the rest is goalpost shifting by whiners.
and nothing more than an attempt to extract a payout from Fitbit.
This is an accurate statement, even if the watch has problems.
All it will take is one person saved by just such an organ grown in an animal, and the idiot pundits and politicians will be swept aside like, what was that thing from the American writers class? Like a spider's legs in a roaring fire!
It is more a political or social message. Are those allowed?
Not all ads are about cars and hamburgers.
Well it is kind of like noting banks "have" trillions of dollars in sales when it is housing sales funded by deposits. Or currency exchange, amounting to a trillion a day in "product". That's not the real size of the market which is just a sliver of that.
The market is pushing around other peoples' money, not the value of the money itself.
Bias is much more about the choice of stories to harp on all day long, day after day, than it is accuracy of the facts.
200 years ago high tech was the steam engine. 200 years from now will be an even greater delta. We shuld no more hamper ourselves than people 200 years ago should have hampered themselves. I would rather live today, at today's tech level, than with a cooler atmosphere and 50 or 100 year older tech level. Or 20.
What happened to massive solar farms producing electricity for hydrogen, as tended by robots who also serve up blueberries the size of softballs for lunch?
And it is not libertarian per se. It was not one of, but the core principle of the founding fathers as they wrote the Constitution -- that the problem with governments has always been the unrestricted power they wield, so here's a government, and here is a list of its powers, and it has no other powers, end of story.
If it wants more, it can go through the deliberately laborious and ponderous supermajority amendment process, precisely to stop the blowing winds of political passion so successfullly wielded by demagogues from a quick takeover.
That was before the cola wars devastated Canada. Nowadays Justin Beiber is the pride of Canada and presently reigns supreme.
He's a fraud who doesn't write his own shit, JUST LIKE ANNE MURRAY! >:-(
Moreover, I heard these use bunker fuel.
You know who else used a bunker? Hitler.
Clean fuel would have to be disposed of as hazardous waste.
> Star Wars Battlefront
And the war crime of forcing what are obviously untrained civilians, AKA "Storm Troopers", to run up as human waves to the slaughter, no ability to shoot, and cool looking armor that might as well be tissue paper.
The "right to vote yourself communist" translates to "the all-too common practice of a large chunk of the population following a demagogue into dictatorship."
The dictators they replace are no better (but probably no worse, when you measure actual health and wealth of the average person, and maybe better.) There is little freedom in either case.
I follow Supreme Court law blogs including Volokh, so on this story I'm dtf, but it is puzzling why slashdot has it.
Activist judges, presidents with executive orders, and a supine Congress with no backbone to stand up to it.
Rather let them get away with it and hope it blows up in their face than stand up to it and get called names.