I'd prefer to help people to various amounts who were in the lower income quintiles.
Helping people in the bottom 4 quintiles is highly inflationary but helping people in the bottom 2 quintiles is not nearly as inflationary and helps promote a meritocracy over a hereditary oligarchy.
Addiction starts where you begin negatively impacting your life.
People who go to bars 3 nights a week, for 3 hours a night, have a social life not an addiction. (they also have more money than sense IMHO! lol! but they are happy).
People who can't stop drinking after the first drink and wake up 2 days later having lost their job have an addiction.
People who risk their health, their relationships, and their freedom (i.e. jail) due to unsafe sex but they can't stop have an addiction.
People who risk their health staying up 24 hours straight playing a video game but they can't stop have an addiction. (some people die from that stuff).
And by those standards, I had a serious addiction to Timothy Zahn, Admiral Thrawn star wars books. Man I missed 2 days work over those books ( and I didn't start the 3rd one until a saturday since I knew if I started on a weeknight, I'd miss work and mess up my sleep).
Lots of people engage in activities at immoderate levels. If it's not harming their health, relationships, job, etc. it's not a problem. If they are happy, it's all cool.
It's more than that. If you search for groups helping females attend college, you'll get a huge list.
If you search for groups helping males, you'll be hard pressed to find any groups that help males exclusively.
As we pass 60% female, perhaps we should start helping young men again.
I worked at a company where 70% of lower management was female. And yet they still were pushing "diversity" and female was considered more "diverse" than male. (Upper management was not at all diverse. Almost all 55+ white males.).
Mostly, you meet the classic sex addiction definition.
"A sex addict is someone who has more sex than I do."
Here's the real definition
Sexual addiction, also known as sex addiction, is a state characterized by compulsive participation or engagement in sexual activity, particularly sexual intercourse, despite negative consequences.
There are no negative consequences. I'm not engaging in risky unprotected sex with many different partners who I know to be risky. I'm not putting my relationship at risk. I'm not putting my (minimal) employment at risk.
Yes I agree that long hours, reduced purchasing power, a huge glut of entertainment options, addictive video games (which DO put your relationship at risk by stopping you from spending time with your partner because they are designed from the ground up to addict you with classic skinner box methods) probably all play a part.
Don't take what I wrote the wrong way. As Baz said, "Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than itâ(TM)s worth."
My advice on sex is nothing more than the result of my own experience.
You should also wear sunscreen. (tho it's not perfect either).
Not everyone likes sex. Some people have no trauma but are naturally asexual. For some people it's painful in various ways. For others it's not all that pleasurable.
Each person has their own personal right level for all things and they should be doing what leaves them happy long term.
I'll most likely be dead in 18-22 years and probably not have a lot of sex in my 70s without ed drugs. Many men in their 70s suffer from ed.
Another thing I recommend to men is to get their testosterone levels formally checked. If you are under 300, you probably need supplementation. Low testosterone causes foggy thinking, free floating anxiety/dread, poor sleep, low sex drive, etc. etc.
About 1/4 of men over 40 suffer from it. Personally, I think it' a cause for sudden late life alcoholism.
You can get it much less expensively at compounding pharmacies. It's affordable even if you don't have insurance and it can prevent blood pressure and other disorders. When you finally get prostate cancer, your doctor will typically end it very rapidly but you may have had 30 happy years in the mean time.
The range is about 300 to 1050. My doc keeps me at 450 which is low normal.
As I posted elsewhere, I don't do a lot of other activities (like watching 9 hour of TV a week, 9 hours of sports, 9 hours of time at the gym, 9 hours at church or reading a Bible in a Year book, and so on.
A woman who is already in a romantic relationship with you will be more attracted to you if you give her positive social strokes and don't give her negative social strokes.
A woman who expects to have an orgasm with you is more likely to have an orgasm with you. A woman who does not expect to have an orgasm with you is less likely to have an orgasm with you.
Once men have an orgasm, they usually lose interest in further sex.
Women are more complicated. Some stop after one. Some are capable of having unlimited orgasms of many nuanced types. I can't even put a number on it, there are so many kinds. Men are also capable of having multiple types of orgasms but many men only experience the basic kind which is centered within a few inches of the male genitalia. It takes time for nerve pathways to open up. 3-15 minutes isn't sufficient.
We can continue subdividing and adding nuance to this discussion. It's almost endlessly complex and deep.
I think you are wrong in one regard. Humans salivate in anticipation of food. Humans can be trained the same as pavlov's dogs. It's a measurable physical response- not a mental response. Humans (not just women) are organic machines. As we consciously treat ourselves as organic machines, we open interesting possibilities.
Would it be an addiction to watch 9 hours of television per week, 3 nights for 3 hours?
Would it be an addiction (in season) to watch 9 hours of football per week, 3 hours one day and 6 hours on Sunday?
Would it be an addiction to work out 9 hours a week (and make no mistake- I have 6 pack abs that I do situps, crunches, etc. for).
Would it be an addiction to walk 9 hours a week (perhaps in 3, 3 hour strolls tho actually I tend to walk 7 hours a week in 7 1 hour strolls).
Would it be an addiction to play video games 9 hours a week, 3 hours each time?
Would it be an addiction to go out dancing 3 nights a week for 3 hours each time?
How about going to church times a week for 3 hours (sunday, wednesday and one other day are not uncommon)
I don't watch football. I only watch 2-4 hours of television. With my bum knee I don't go out dancing any more.
I adore and cherish the person I have sex with. She has a lot of pleasure and happiness because of me. What's wrong with sharing pleasure with a person you adore and cherish?
Please understand, I'm coming from a place of joy and making helpful suggestions. Seriously- dancing is much easier than pushups. And it's not non-stop thrusting. It's lots of petting, kissing, talking, and mixing it up. And a lot of edging for me which is like having 10 minute full body orgasms.
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I do still ski but that's getting bloody expensive. And when I ski, I ski 6-7 hours a day for 4 days a week.
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Try to judge less. I'm glad you are happy with your own sex life.
If you are going to be fair, any options offered to females must be available to males.
This is a point of contention for me because at multiple jobs, weekend support was assigned to the males because the office was empty. I got stuck with it once and what really pissed me off is after working 18 hours over the weekend, I was still required to attend the 9am monday morning meeting.
I'm closing on 60 and still averaging over 150 a year (and about 9 hours a week). One may be related to the other-- sex may be of less value to average folks who take 3 to 15 minutes, half the women don't have an orgasm, etc.
Biggest suggestion I can make is to have your setup where the man can stand-- I prefer a inexpensive massage table. The height is adjustable. If she wants to ride cowboy, you can still lay down on it. It's comfortable but not so soft that you are fighting a mattress that's absorbing all your energy.
But for the guy- doing a 2 hour pushup is much harder than dancing for 2 hours.
Next, I'd say to guys *always* make sure she has an orgasm. Your orgasm is actually the optional one if you want to have a lot of sex- not hers. And as you get older, look into tantric sex. But a little denial will actually make your interest stronger. And induces you to naturally be nice to her, complement her, etc.
I see so many couples who kill their sex lives thru random rejection. That's just a really deadly trap. One asks the other for sex and is rejected. After a few iterations, they stop asking.
To the women, I'd say- guys need to feel special and you gotta flatter them. That doesn't mean putting on lingerie and expecting them to get aroused. That works on 20 year olds but it fails against football and video games even for 28 year olds much less 30 year olds. Don't believe, "All I have to do is show up naked". No. You need to flirt. You need to touch. You need to express interest. Sure- he needs to do the same. But the male ego is a real thing. And even if he thinks he wants it- if his ego is torn up, the rocket isn't launching. Penetrative sex isn't the only show in town but it is the most important to many couples (and even women who feel validated that the male rose to the occasion).
To both sides: Brush and floss your teeth. A mouth that smells like decay isn't sexy. I don't even think I've ever seen a rule of 34 for that. For other body odors and scents- you need to talk to your partner and find out what they like. Antiseptic is good for some, but a little humanity is good for others and some folks like it ripe.
Anyway.. sounds like a really low rate. It's a wonderful human activity and can be a lot of fun.
Even to the degree you are correct, you are ignoring the time it takes.
Many of the luddites died of starvation and exposure. They were correct about how bad automation would be. Owners would not train them on the new equipment.
It was the generation AFTER them who did okay in factories.
It could be 10 to 40 years before we adapt to the automation and people are employed again. That's going to indicate a period of civil unrest and violence. And that's EVEN if you give them money to survive. Many people without meaningful tasks turn to bad things- they don't just sit and consume the entertainment and free food as you'd logically expect.
Amazon is already working on eliminating the next human step in the chain. Humans picking packing the boxes.
Right now the robot shelf brings the product to the human who picks it and packs the box. There are tens of thousands of these across the country. They'll vanish quickly when the pick item and pack box step is roboticized.
That's a real interesting deflection there but the problem is high traffic volume on streets designed for low traffic volume.
* More accidents * Much higher road maintenance costs because * High traffic roads are built much thicker and of different materials than low traffic roads. * Danger to neighborhood children and street traffic on roads not designed to for high density, high speed traffic.
Various traffic shaping tools can be used such as... * Blocking streets. * Turning the streets into a maze with lots of dead end sections * Closable gates that completely block traffic thru the neighborhoods at certain times of day. * Lowering speed limits on residential roads and enforcing the lower speed limits.
In zoned communities, restaurants are on the edges or even in separate districts. Even in my *non* zoned neighborhood which fortunately doesn't face this traffic problem, we have a grand total of one hamburger joint and 2 convenience sores. The restaurants are all 2 miles away on the highway feeders and in a business strip center.
So the likelihood of discovering a restaurant as you cut thru a residential neighborhood at 50mph is vanishingly small- even if you had any real intention of stopping instead of trying a conway-esque deflection.
Bringing in H1b's usually a first step towards offshoring.
For example at a company i worked at, they brought in about 100 H1b's (and L1's) for 6 years saying they were helping while they really were documenting everything and gaining experience in the roles and then laid off 90% of the staff and moved 60%-70% of those jobs to india while retaining about the balance of those onshore.
The offshoring company did well with older technologies but failed to deliver SAP skills.
How do we know? When the 90% layoffs hit, it included people who'd seen the contracts and attended the meetings 6 years before and they leaked like crazy. The layoffs had been planned over a year before the first H1b walked in the door.
Did you even listen to the entire TYT video? They say flat out that they don't even see the controversy.
So yes, it is different. Mr. Obama was president and didn't break the law saying that to Medvedev. Mr. Obama was president and was talking to the President of Russia.
And when asked about it, Mr. Obama didn't perjure himself when there was no reason to voluntarily perjure himself unprompted in response to a different question.
And we didn't have a wide range of illegal contact between multiple people on Mr. Obama's team with "Russia's top spy master" (and that's per a republican surrogate).
While it's not illegal to use a private email server for state business, early indications are that Pence did not comply with records retention laws around that email address.
He may be fine, but it should be investigated to be sure.
Yes, early indications are that he broke some record retention laws around handling of his emails even tho he was legally allowed a private email address for state business. Basically, the equivalent of the 30,000 deleted emails.
Read on up on quckly automobiles caught on and consider that many robots being sold today are fairly cheap.
Besides, an individual robot doesn't need to be better than every human at every task.
The 3,000 noodle chef's laid off in china by noodle robots are still out of work. And customers prefer the noodles created by the noodle robots (which.. keep in mind... cost less than the salary of a noodle chef in CHINA).
The bar will keep being moved. Even when computer programs are 'smarter' than 99% of humans, they won't be considered "real A.I." by many people. Some for religious reasons. Some for property reasons.
It may be not one versitile A.I. that can do everything better than humans- but hundreds of "idiot savant" who each excel human beings in a particular area.
Because american workers don't have unlimited rights to immigrate to india. Because the cost of living here is much higher. A person will starve to death on the same salary that would be excellent in india.
Now, IF capitalism were allowed to work and we could buy products from india at the prices indian consumers pay- that would help a lot. But we have artificial laws preventing that.
Flatly ILLEGAL web sites offer the same drugs for sale from india at under 1/4th the cost the same drugs are sold in the U.S.
Microsoft charges U.S. citizens over $1,000 for the same products they give away free to indians.
It's a short term problem. It's going to resolve itself and indians are going to experience tremendous inflation while u.s. workers stagnate until automation wipes them both out.
And then it will be very stark. Some people will have money and the majority of everyone else in the world will have no way to trade their labor for money,food, lodging. And at that point, the mass market collapses.
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I agree. And not just men.
I'd prefer to help people to various amounts who were in the lower income quintiles.
Helping people in the bottom 4 quintiles is highly inflationary but helping people in the bottom 2 quintiles is not nearly as inflationary and helps promote a meritocracy over a hereditary oligarchy.
Addiction starts where you begin negatively impacting your life.
People who go to bars 3 nights a week, for 3 hours a night, have a social life not an addiction. (they also have more money than sense IMHO! lol! but they are happy).
People who can't stop drinking after the first drink and wake up 2 days later having lost their job have an addiction.
People who risk their health, their relationships, and their freedom (i.e. jail) due to unsafe sex but they can't stop have an addiction.
People who risk their health staying up 24 hours straight playing a video game but they can't stop have an addiction. (some people die from that stuff).
And by those standards, I had a serious addiction to Timothy Zahn, Admiral Thrawn star wars books. Man I missed 2 days work over those books ( and I didn't start the 3rd one until a saturday since I knew if I started on a weeknight, I'd miss work and mess up my sleep).
Lots of people engage in activities at immoderate levels. If it's not harming their health, relationships, job, etc. it's not a problem. If they are happy, it's all cool.
And seriously... massage table for the win.
It's more than that. If you search for groups helping females attend college, you'll get a huge list.
If you search for groups helping males, you'll be hard pressed to find any groups that help males exclusively.
As we pass 60% female, perhaps we should start helping young men again.
I worked at a company where 70% of lower management was female. And yet they still were pushing "diversity" and female was considered more "diverse" than male. (Upper management was not at all diverse. Almost all 55+ white males.).
Mostly, you meet the classic sex addiction definition.
"A sex addict is someone who has more sex than I do."
Here's the real definition
Sexual addiction, also known as sex addiction, is a state characterized by compulsive participation or engagement in sexual activity, particularly sexual intercourse, despite negative consequences.
There are no negative consequences. I'm not engaging in risky unprotected sex with many different partners who I know to be risky. I'm not putting my relationship at risk. I'm not putting my (minimal) employment at risk.
Yes I agree that long hours, reduced purchasing power, a huge glut of entertainment options, addictive video games (which DO put your relationship at risk by stopping you from spending time with your partner because they are designed from the ground up to addict you with classic skinner box methods) probably all play a part.
Don't take what I wrote the wrong way. As Baz said, "Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than itâ(TM)s worth."
My advice on sex is nothing more than the result of my own experience.
You should also wear sunscreen. (tho it's not perfect either).
Thank you.
Not everyone likes sex. Some people have no trauma but are naturally asexual. For some people it's painful in various ways. For others it's not all that pleasurable.
Each person has their own personal right level for all things and they should be doing what leaves them happy long term.
I'll most likely be dead in 18-22 years and probably not have a lot of sex in my 70s without ed drugs. Many men in their 70s suffer from ed.
Another thing I recommend to men is to get their testosterone levels formally checked. If you are under 300, you probably need supplementation. Low testosterone causes foggy thinking, free floating anxiety/dread, poor sleep, low sex drive, etc. etc.
About 1/4 of men over 40 suffer from it. Personally, I think it' a cause for sudden late life alcoholism.
You can get it much less expensively at compounding pharmacies. It's affordable even if you don't have insurance and it can prevent blood pressure and other disorders. When you finally get prostate cancer, your doctor will typically end it very rapidly but you may have had 30 happy years in the mean time.
The range is about 300 to 1050. My doc keeps me at 450 which is low normal.
As I posted elsewhere, I don't do a lot of other activities (like watching 9 hour of TV a week, 9 hours of sports, 9 hours of time at the gym, 9 hours at church or reading a Bible in a Year book, and so on.
Perhaps you are simply being being simplistic.
I'd reconsider your opinion.
Try this.
A woman who is already in a romantic relationship with you will be more attracted to you if you give her positive social strokes and don't give her negative social strokes.
A woman who expects to have an orgasm with you is more likely to have an orgasm with you.
A woman who does not expect to have an orgasm with you is less likely to have an orgasm with you.
Once men have an orgasm, they usually lose interest in further sex.
Women are more complicated. Some stop after one. Some are capable of having unlimited orgasms of many nuanced types. I can't even put a number on it, there are so many kinds. Men are also capable of having multiple types of orgasms but many men only experience the basic kind which is centered within a few inches of the male genitalia. It takes time for nerve pathways to open up. 3-15 minutes isn't sufficient.
We can continue subdividing and adding nuance to this discussion. It's almost endlessly complex and deep.
I think you are wrong in one regard. Humans salivate in anticipation of food. Humans can be trained the same as pavlov's dogs. It's a measurable physical response- not a mental response. Humans (not just women) are organic machines. As we consciously treat ourselves as organic machines, we open interesting possibilities.
Think of it this way..
Would it be an addiction to watch 9 hours of television per week, 3 nights for 3 hours?
Would it be an addiction (in season) to watch 9 hours of football per week, 3 hours one day and 6 hours on Sunday?
Would it be an addiction to work out 9 hours a week (and make no mistake- I have 6 pack abs that I do situps, crunches, etc. for).
Would it be an addiction to walk 9 hours a week (perhaps in 3, 3 hour strolls tho actually I tend to walk 7 hours a week in 7 1 hour strolls).
Would it be an addiction to play video games 9 hours a week, 3 hours each time?
Would it be an addiction to go out dancing 3 nights a week for 3 hours each time?
How about going to church times a week for 3 hours (sunday, wednesday and one other day are not uncommon)
I don't watch football. I only watch 2-4 hours of television. With my bum knee I don't go out dancing any more.
I adore and cherish the person I have sex with. She has a lot of pleasure and happiness because of me. What's wrong with sharing pleasure with a person you adore and cherish?
Please understand, I'm coming from a place of joy and making helpful suggestions. Seriously- dancing is much easier than pushups. And it's not non-stop thrusting. It's lots of petting, kissing, talking, and mixing it up. And a lot of edging for me which is like having 10 minute full body orgasms.
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I do still ski but that's getting bloody expensive. And when I ski, I ski 6-7 hours a day for 4 days a week.
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Try to judge less. I'm glad you are happy with your own sex life.
If you are going to be fair, any options offered to females must be available to males.
This is a point of contention for me because at multiple jobs, weekend support was assigned to the males because the office was empty. I got stuck with it once and what really pissed me off is after working 18 hours over the weekend, I was still required to attend the 9am monday morning meeting.
Fair is fair.
I'm closing on 60 and still averaging over 150 a year (and about 9 hours a week). One may be related to the other-- sex may be of less value to average folks who take 3 to 15 minutes, half the women don't have an orgasm, etc.
Biggest suggestion I can make is to have your setup where the man can stand-- I prefer a inexpensive massage table. The height is adjustable. If she wants to ride cowboy, you can still lay down on it. It's comfortable but not so soft that you are fighting a mattress that's absorbing all your energy.
But for the guy- doing a 2 hour pushup is much harder than dancing for 2 hours.
Next, I'd say to guys *always* make sure she has an orgasm. Your orgasm is actually the optional one if you want to have a lot of sex- not hers.
And as you get older, look into tantric sex. But a little denial will actually make your interest stronger. And induces you to naturally be nice to her, complement her, etc.
I see so many couples who kill their sex lives thru random rejection. That's just a really deadly trap. One asks the other for sex and is rejected. After a few iterations, they stop asking.
To the women, I'd say- guys need to feel special and you gotta flatter them. That doesn't mean putting on lingerie and expecting them to get aroused. That works on 20 year olds but it fails against football and video games even for 28 year olds much less 30 year olds. Don't believe, "All I have to do is show up naked". No. You need to flirt. You need to touch. You need to express interest. Sure- he needs to do the same. But the male ego is a real thing. And even if he thinks he wants it- if his ego is torn up, the rocket isn't launching. Penetrative sex isn't the only show in town but it is the most important to many couples (and even women who feel validated that the male rose to the occasion).
To both sides: Brush and floss your teeth. A mouth that smells like decay isn't sexy. I don't even think I've ever seen a rule of 34 for that. For other body odors and scents- you need to talk to your partner and find out what they like. Antiseptic is good for some, but a little humanity is good for others and some folks like it ripe.
Anyway.. sounds like a really low rate. It's a wonderful human activity and can be a lot of fun.
Even to the degree you are correct, you are ignoring the time it takes.
Many of the luddites died of starvation and exposure. They were correct about how bad automation would be. Owners would not train them on the new equipment.
It was the generation AFTER them who did okay in factories.
It could be 10 to 40 years before we adapt to the automation and people are employed again. That's going to indicate a period of civil unrest and violence. And that's EVEN if you give them money to survive. Many people without meaningful tasks turn to bad things- they don't just sit and consume the entertainment and free food as you'd logically expect.
Amazon is already working on eliminating the next human step in the chain. Humans picking packing the boxes.
Right now the robot shelf brings the product to the human who picks it and packs the box. There are tens of thousands of these across the country. They'll vanish quickly when the pick item and pack box step is roboticized.
That's a real interesting deflection there but the problem is high traffic volume on streets designed for low traffic volume.
* More accidents
* Much higher road maintenance costs because
* High traffic roads are built much thicker and of different materials than low traffic roads.
* Danger to neighborhood children and street traffic on roads not designed to for high density, high speed traffic.
Various traffic shaping tools can be used such as...
* Blocking streets.
* Turning the streets into a maze with lots of dead end sections
* Closable gates that completely block traffic thru the neighborhoods at certain times of day.
* Lowering speed limits on residential roads and enforcing the lower speed limits.
In zoned communities, restaurants are on the edges or even in separate districts. Even in my *non* zoned neighborhood which fortunately doesn't face this traffic problem, we have a grand total of one hamburger joint and 2 convenience sores. The restaurants are all 2 miles away on the highway feeders and in a business strip center.
So the likelihood of discovering a restaurant as you cut thru a residential neighborhood at 50mph is vanishingly small- even if you had any real intention of stopping instead of trying a conway-esque deflection.
The fact all five lied about the meetings until they were exposed is sufficient for me.
I'm sure it doesn't matter to you. hell, for all I know you are a russian poster sitting in an office in moscow.
At five aids and counting now who met privately with the russian ambassador- called "the top russian spymaster in the u.s." by republicans.
Bringing in H1b's usually a first step towards offshoring.
For example at a company i worked at, they brought in about 100 H1b's (and L1's) for 6 years saying they were helping while they really were documenting everything and gaining experience in the roles and then laid off 90% of the staff and moved 60%-70% of those jobs to india while retaining about the balance of those onshore.
The offshoring company did well with older technologies but failed to deliver SAP skills.
How do we know? When the 90% layoffs hit, it included people who'd seen the contracts and attended the meetings 6 years before and they leaked like crazy. The layoffs had been planned over a year before the first H1b walked in the door.
Did you even listen to the entire TYT video? They say flat out that they don't even see the controversy.
So yes, it is different. Mr. Obama was president and didn't break the law saying that to Medvedev. Mr. Obama was president and was talking to the President of Russia.
And when asked about it, Mr. Obama didn't perjure himself when there was no reason to voluntarily perjure himself unprompted in response to a different question.
And we didn't have a wide range of illegal contact between multiple people on Mr. Obama's team with "Russia's top spy master" (and that's per a republican surrogate).
You must have a very odd definition of "we took it like adults".
3 of Mr. Trump's associates have lied about meeting with the top russian spy master (a republican's words- not a democrats) in the U.S. so far.
Look- even if Ted Cruz had been elected, I'd say you have a point. But something is seriously wrong with Mr. Trump. it stinks to high hell.
My understanding is that robotic workhouses are not lit or climate controlled to human standards so the savings might be smaller.
Personally, I'm happy with LED lighting since about 2012.
While it's not illegal to use a private email server for state business, early indications are that Pence did not comply with records retention laws around that email address.
He may be fine, but it should be investigated to be sure.
Yes, early indications are that he broke some record retention laws around handling of his emails even tho he was legally allowed a private email address for state business. Basically, the equivalent of the 30,000 deleted emails.
Read on up on quckly automobiles caught on and consider that many robots being sold today are fairly cheap.
Besides, an individual robot doesn't need to be better than every human at every task.
The 3,000 noodle chef's laid off in china by noodle robots are still out of work. And customers prefer the noodles created by the noodle robots (which.. keep in mind... cost less than the salary of a noodle chef in CHINA).
The bar will keep being moved. Even when computer programs are 'smarter' than 99% of humans, they won't be considered "real A.I." by many people. Some for religious reasons. Some for property reasons.
It may be not one versitile A.I. that can do everything better than humans- but hundreds of "idiot savant" who each excel human beings in a particular area.
Movies at $6 to $8 are something you can do every friday.
At $12! for non-3d, non imax- just ordinary screen and still pay $8 for popcorn and $5 for a drink, I pass.
Because american workers don't have unlimited rights to immigrate to india.
Because the cost of living here is much higher. A person will starve to death on the same salary that would be excellent in india.
Now, IF capitalism were allowed to work and we could buy products from india at the prices indian consumers pay- that would help a lot. But we have artificial laws preventing that.
Flatly ILLEGAL web sites offer the same drugs for sale from india at under 1/4th the cost the same drugs are sold in the U.S.
Microsoft charges U.S. citizens over $1,000 for the same products they give away free to indians.
It's a short term problem. It's going to resolve itself and indians are going to experience tremendous inflation while u.s. workers stagnate until automation wipes them both out.
And then it will be very stark. Some people will have money and the majority of everyone else in the world will have no way to trade their labor for money ,food, lodging. And at that point, the mass market collapses.
We had enough people out of work who were desperate enough that they voted a demagogue into power.
Add just a few million more people to the unemployment line with no hope of a job and you can permanently kiss the country goodbye.