I picture his aides chasing him around to get his phone like the pirates chase the wenches around in the pirates of the Caribbean ride.
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I picture his aides chasing him around to get his phone like the pirates chase the wenches around in the pirates of the Caribbean ride.
Dimples are cute... But not on your thighs.
I can't believe that he was the fittest candidate to ever run for president (according to his Doctor...)
Yup.
Whenever I've tried to explain this to people they don't want to believe it. At best they think it will happen to over people but their job is safe because its not a rote position. Even "creative" jobs will get automated away. People may think UX design is all creative, but in reality there are formulas that can just be put into logic that an AI can then output something that is better than most of us can create. We will all be affected. Its the inevitable outcome of Capitalism, employees are the last problem to solve. And before that even happens after so many will be out of jobs the economy will crash due of the lack of demand of products and services. Capitalism was great for getting us here but its time for something else, well that doesn't include Trump being orange emperor of everything.
And making it worse is how bad our tech literacy is. Sometimes its feels that i work with people who basically can't read, i mean, at this point if you can't function in Excel or Word its like not being able to read K-5 grade books in school. People have no concept of how tech/automation is affecting everything.
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Oh my f***ing eyes. You owe me some really strong concoction that can wipe this from my minds' eye.
I often wonder if some people have a kind Cyber-lexia, just as much an issue for them as dyslexia or dyscalculia is for others. Yeah, some just don't want to learn, but for others the workings of computers are very foreign or abstract.
That could be one reason.
Also, people above a certain age are from a time where we aren't as reliant on computer programs or didn't have computers much at. And yea some people refuse to learn new things. Add those together and computers are foreign objects like you said.
Also are educational system hasn't been good at teaching people how to learn, only to "here learn this thing" and that's a problem. The world we're in now needs people to have minds which are more flexible. Had I not understood the method of teaching that the Audio Engineering school I went to used i probably would have never been able to learn to program, it really opened my eyes on how to attack a new thing to learn.
That's probably optimistic. I think he'd be on welfare because he couldn't hold a job. Or who knows maybe having some real adversity maybe would have made him a better person.
Capitalism like everything else in the world needs to evolve or it'll die, we can't sit still while everything around us is constantly changing.
This is partly why I wonder if Capitalism works on a curve; great for small countries and small markets, but a mess in larger societies as you get things like monopolies or Robber Barons.
Yea there appears to be a technological point where Capitalism no longer makes sense.
I do however always think that it boils down to the people. Robber Barons don't have to exists, people choose to let themselves be guided by their insecurities and that creates them. It can happen in any society or system and cause erosion.
So it takes an opportunity to blame Obama for something to get Trump to finally admit that Russia interfered with the 2016 elections., The Presidency is in such a pathetic state that it's no surprise that no one in the White House is even bothering to learn from their previous mistakes.
And even now while casting blame on Obama and everyone else for his unforced errors, Trump is STILL masturbating over the idea of firing Mueller. Something that everyone agrees would most certainly guarantee a full fledged political disaster for himself and the rest of the Republican party.
But despite that the tweets just keep on coming.
And even now while casting blame on Obama and everyone else for his unforced errors, Trump is STILL masturbating over the idea of firing Mueller. Something that everyone agrees would most certainly guarantee a full fledged political disaster for himself and the rest of the Republican party.
But despite that the tweets just keep on coming.
I also wonder if many people are still around where that point isn't felt as much, like small businesses and rural communities, and that is why to them Strong Capitalism just intuitively makes sense and seems fair. It might seems like under Capitalism you're more likely to have Meritocracy.
I also wonder if in bigger more complicated societies and economies, Meritocracy dwindles as a real part of work life, yet people still hold onto ideas like putting in time for Seniority to be rewarded with promotion or at least a pension. Nevermind that CEOs would probably laugh at notions like this as they operate on very different rules.
The problem with modern capitalism is that the rich have too much control. Just look at net neutrality. Anyone who understands it thinks it is a good idea, yet every net neutrality rule is getting ripped apart... why? Of course, the big ISPs put huge money into lobbyists and literally bribe politicians to screw us over. You can look up all the donations and guess what? The whole thing is not only legal, it isn't even a secret.
The wealth gap just keeps growing, and the government does nothing to stop it. The rich control all the resources and more importantly the narrative. With all the talk of media bias, one consistent bias stands out - the narrative of fear. How many times a day do you see stock footage of North Korean troops marching? You'll never see a news story on the wealth gap, or how inflation is making you poorer and poorer.
This is the point where people start screaming "socialism", but communism is not the answer (people who accuse others of socialism have no idea what the word means).
What we need is:
-a gov't that represents all people equally, not the big money first
-a tax system where profitable businesses pay to keep the system going
Unfortunately what we have is a system that's unsustainable. The rich get richer and richer. Unless something is done, one day there will no longer be a middle class. However, too many people don't realize how poor they really are, and keep blaming welfare for all their problems. Never mind the fact that they are a small run of bad luck away from being in poverty themselves. Max out that credit card and lease a car you can't afford and pretend you're one of the "haves" in the system.
The wealth gap just keeps growing, and the government does nothing to stop it. The rich control all the resources and more importantly the narrative. With all the talk of media bias, one consistent bias stands out - the narrative of fear. How many times a day do you see stock footage of North Korean troops marching? You'll never see a news story on the wealth gap, or how inflation is making you poorer and poorer.
This is the point where people start screaming "socialism", but communism is not the answer (people who accuse others of socialism have no idea what the word means).
What we need is:
-a gov't that represents all people equally, not the big money first
-a tax system where profitable businesses pay to keep the system going
Unfortunately what we have is a system that's unsustainable. The rich get richer and richer. Unless something is done, one day there will no longer be a middle class. However, too many people don't realize how poor they really are, and keep blaming welfare for all their problems. Never mind the fact that they are a small run of bad luck away from being in poverty themselves. Max out that credit card and lease a car you can't afford and pretend you're one of the "haves" in the system.
Also as for rural America, I'm guessing that you get a lot of smaller business owners who are certainly not the ones buying congressmen and dodging taxes. Those people typically work very hard for what they get, and of course when something like Obamacare comes along it is a huge hit to a small business. The small business owners can't set up off shore tax shelters. Apple pays zero taxes in the US, yet your local mom and pop restaurant pays a lot. I'm guessing a lot of local business owners turn republican pretty quickly because they feel their very existence depends on it.
Similar to communism and socialism and libertarianism as theories. Take a good idea, add a lot of people, and you have a s***ty idea.
Now Trump blames the Democrats for not helping pass their awful health care bill.
Funny, the Dems were blasted for not getting any GOP support for Obamacare (hence the reason it was called Obamacare)
Funny, the Dems were blasted for not getting any GOP support for Obamacare (hence the reason it was called Obamacare)
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