I disagree, JohnAZ. Government should not be involved in job creation. Government needs to de-regulate everything and stay the fuck out of businesses. Let the private market prevail. Competition will encourage innovation and discourage high prices. More than anything, I just want government to just go away. Just disappear. I'm so sick of other flawed human beings standing on a made up pedestal and making themselves the rulers of me and mine because......welll because the said so. Or, the won a popularity contest. Either way, I'm sick of all government and I just want it to disappear.
We do not disagree. Note тАЬlegitimate job creationтАЭ as in return manufacturing, policies need to be set in the Feds for a good economic environment, including dealing with labor. The federal government has not created a job ever that was not an economic liability. They are a sink, not a source. $36 trillion worth.
"A Nation's wealth is its people.", but as you imply, it's people need to be appraised and managed.
"The early bird gets the worm." "Birds of a feather flock together."
We all come preprogrammed to "game the system", otherwise we would not come into being. Capitalism equates to freedom and appeals to our human nature. The man made format for life, as with most any game, comes to an end. Don't you think that the current date with "suicide" could be put off if "The System" had been managed better? Is it possible that a new AI efficient format for life, coupled with a return to morality, could put off the day of reckoning; or will a lifetime of conditioning require a War and/or a Great Depression, before US citizens will embrace a new format for life?
As a fan of Star Trek there was a movie where the Enterprise encountered a race of people who had eschewed technology in favor of a more simple life. Turns out the race of people were sophisticated enough to have warp drive but they chose not to have it. Instead they focused on being master gardeners, artisans, black smiths, and developing skills with their hands and doing the work themselves. It was an interesting show. Almost like finding a galactic enclave of the Amish!
I prefer the one where the beings assumed physical form to teach the humans and the Klingons. They seemed to be simple folk, but they were evolved far beyond us. The leader forbade them to make war saying, As I stand here, I stand upon the home world of the Klingon Empire. Your weapons will not work.
Lugh----this was tried in India many years ago. Their leaders banned quite a few modern machines with the object to make jobs. Failed miserably. I believe it was Milton Friedman that said, why ban motorized equipment for building dams and moving earth, why not just make using spoons the tool of choice for moving earth. Takes a lot more people to move a ton of dirt with spoons than with a dozer. Of course each employee is not very productive so you cannot pay them much. India learned this the hard way and a lot of the people there starved in the 50s and 60s.
Uncle Milty didn't believe in the border with Mexico. Borders get in the way of the free flow of good and services - and money! Elon likes Milty. Elon is a globalist too I imagine.
Capitalism per se is anti-nation in its mature or final form. National Socialism has to step in before this stage is reached if the nation is to survive. We missed our stop.
Trump needs to create a sub-cabinet under Labor to deal with job creation, legitimate job creation. Hint, return manufacturing to the USA.
I disagree, JohnAZ. Government should not be involved in job creation. Government needs to de-regulate everything and stay the fuck out of businesses. Let the private market prevail. Competition will encourage innovation and discourage high prices. More than anything, I just want government to just go away. Just disappear. I'm so sick of other flawed human beings standing on a made up pedestal and making themselves the rulers of me and mine because......welll because the said so. Or, the won a popularity contest. Either way, I'm sick of all government and I just want it to disappear.
We do not disagree. Note тАЬlegitimate job creationтАЭ as in return manufacturing, policies need to be set in the Feds for a good economic environment, including dealing with labor. The federal government has not created a job ever that was not an economic liability. They are a sink, not a source. $36 trillion worth.
AI=UBI. And that's the best scenario. The others is just to kill all of us by "letting" us die.
So? Therefore? Is it not obvious?
Forbid the development of AI if you are against UBI or an engineered mass die off.
Forbid the development of AI, and any nation that pursues it will eat US for lunch.
Those that do will have embraced suicide. A Nation's wealth is its people.
"A Nation's wealth is its people.", but as you imply, it's people need to be appraised and managed.
"The early bird gets the worm." "Birds of a feather flock together."
We all come preprogrammed to "game the system", otherwise we would not come into being. Capitalism equates to freedom and appeals to our human nature. The man made format for life, as with most any game, comes to an end. Don't you think that the current date with "suicide" could be put off if "The System" had been managed better? Is it possible that a new AI efficient format for life, coupled with a return to morality, could put off the day of reckoning; or will a lifetime of conditioning require a War and/or a Great Depression, before US citizens will embrace a new format for life?
Ban robots that replace humans. Computers too. Bring back the abacus and mechanical cash register with real cash and coin.
Lugh - Think Mayberry RFD, where each family had a function to fill to serve the community. No damn computers, just people interfacing.
The Butlerian Jihad!
As a fan of Star Trek there was a movie where the Enterprise encountered a race of people who had eschewed technology in favor of a more simple life. Turns out the race of people were sophisticated enough to have warp drive but they chose not to have it. Instead they focused on being master gardeners, artisans, black smiths, and developing skills with their hands and doing the work themselves. It was an interesting show. Almost like finding a galactic enclave of the Amish!
I prefer the one where the beings assumed physical form to teach the humans and the Klingons. They seemed to be simple folk, but they were evolved far beyond us. The leader forbade them to make war saying, As I stand here, I stand upon the home world of the Klingon Empire. Your weapons will not work.
тАЬInsurrectionтАЭ
Lugh----this was tried in India many years ago. Their leaders banned quite a few modern machines with the object to make jobs. Failed miserably. I believe it was Milton Friedman that said, why ban motorized equipment for building dams and moving earth, why not just make using spoons the tool of choice for moving earth. Takes a lot more people to move a ton of dirt with spoons than with a dozer. Of course each employee is not very productive so you cannot pay them much. India learned this the hard way and a lot of the people there starved in the 50s and 60s.
Uncle Milty didn't believe in the border with Mexico. Borders get in the way of the free flow of good and services - and money! Elon likes Milty. Elon is a globalist too I imagine.
Capitalism per se is anti-nation in its mature or final form. National Socialism has to step in before this stage is reached if the nation is to survive. We missed our stop.
Yeah they tried to build Pyramids without machinery and ended up using mind power to levitate the stones until they got Jewish slaves!
A race of Jedi Knights?