Every once in a while, some seemingly innocuous comment catches your attention, and as you start to think about it, you realize it’s like a single thread that will unravel a whole broken worldview if you pull on it long enough.
Very well-done John. Thanks for this. If we had half as much financial literacy in the population as we have literacy about gender pronouns and hip-hop lyrics, we would have a much better country and likely one with a lot less debt.
I am worried though. Workforce automation including AI is chewing though jobs and is likely to change our entire social contract for needing to work for a living. Even with a robust national industrial policy combined with requiring more on public assistance to work, it seems that technology is unstoppable in its quest to eliminate work and thus require more transfers of income and wealth from those at the top that own the technology companies, to everyone else unable to find reasonable employment.
Frankly, I think this trajectory is the end of society as without productive work to satiate human psychological needs, the population will adopt destructive alternatives like protesting ICE and impeding law enforcement, etc.
Looking to the future, I would today start implementing policies that encourage, motivate and reward business that hires real human labor to offset the looming destruction from the lack of economic opportunity caused by technology "progress". Otherwise, we can expect more arguments like this X post you included and more people that believe it... and frankly don't have any other alternative but to believe it.
John I see the self delusion, ignorant avoidance of mathematics, and wishful thinking all around me everyday. I live in a county that is 70 percent Democrat, and there is never any brakes on spending, its always the equivalent of "hey, so what if we plow into that overpass at 70 MPH?" Someone will tell us how we can fix that; we don't have to even try to figure out the math on that. In the meantime, lets just raise taxes on the rich and print money! Just like you, every time I hear some jackwagon proclaim a sentence starting with "in the richest country in the world," I want to grab a ball bat! Cuz its way beyond stupidity. its willful ignorance backed up by bold faced lies. The worst part of our democracy is that the very dumbest people, who want what they want, now, and kick the can down the road/take out another credit card- get to cancel my vote everytime. Rats.
Very well-done John. Thanks for this. If we had half as much financial literacy in the population as we have literacy about gender pronouns and hip-hop lyrics, we would have a much better country and likely one with a lot less debt.
I am worried though. Workforce automation including AI is chewing though jobs and is likely to change our entire social contract for needing to work for a living. Even with a robust national industrial policy combined with requiring more on public assistance to work, it seems that technology is unstoppable in its quest to eliminate work and thus require more transfers of income and wealth from those at the top that own the technology companies, to everyone else unable to find reasonable employment.
Frankly, I think this trajectory is the end of society as without productive work to satiate human psychological needs, the population will adopt destructive alternatives like protesting ICE and impeding law enforcement, etc.
Looking to the future, I would today start implementing policies that encourage, motivate and reward business that hires real human labor to offset the looming destruction from the lack of economic opportunity caused by technology "progress". Otherwise, we can expect more arguments like this X post you included and more people that believe it... and frankly don't have any other alternative but to believe it.
John I see the self delusion, ignorant avoidance of mathematics, and wishful thinking all around me everyday. I live in a county that is 70 percent Democrat, and there is never any brakes on spending, its always the equivalent of "hey, so what if we plow into that overpass at 70 MPH?" Someone will tell us how we can fix that; we don't have to even try to figure out the math on that. In the meantime, lets just raise taxes on the rich and print money! Just like you, every time I hear some jackwagon proclaim a sentence starting with "in the richest country in the world," I want to grab a ball bat! Cuz its way beyond stupidity. its willful ignorance backed up by bold faced lies. The worst part of our democracy is that the very dumbest people, who want what they want, now, and kick the can down the road/take out another credit card- get to cancel my vote everytime. Rats.