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Is this the desired future?

What are the predictable outcome(s)?

How is this considered innovating, liberating or for the long term greater good?

Mind you, this isn’t Stockton, California!

Might be needed in 20 or 30 years as some experts say 60-70% of jobs can (and most likely will) be replaced with AI.

(07-17-2018 10:56 AM)GRBRONCO Wrote:  Might be needed in 20 or 30 years as some experts say 60-70% of jobs can (and most likely will) be replaced with AI.

AI aside because in 20-30 years life could be drastically different.

What about now? Tomorrow? Next year?

If this is a solution for today what does that say about the solutions from "yesterday" that played a role in getting us here and now?

How is this action today moving toward a sustainable solution? Is sustainable even desired?

What can we learn from "yesterday" about setting the trajectory for tomorrow?

(07-17-2018 10:23 AM)gobaseline Wrote:  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/07/...ogram.html

Is this the desired future?

What are the predictable outcome(s)?

How is this considered innovating, liberating or for the long term greater good?

Mind you, this isn’t Stockton, California!

"From each, according to their ability. To each, according to their need."

Sigh. Not where we want to go as a society.

What a lot of people screaming for $15/hr at fast food jobs don’t realize is that the tech to replace them already exists. Ordering kiosks, drink and burger making machines. What McD and BK is waiting for is the tipping point to make the capital costs make sense vs payroll/insurance of employees. Also society is soon more accepting of replacing people with machines (Meijer U Scan, Various kiosks, delivery drones & robots). Once the potential of negative press of replacing employees turns to apathy then someone will pull the trigger. The catalyst may be a new restaurant company that starts with automation and undercuts Wendy’s/McDs/Bk.

Bottom line is get trained to do work that can’t easily be replaced by machines or sent overseas.

Came out a couple days ago Jeff Bezos has blown up to $156,000,000,000.00 net worth. Wadda yah gonna do with it?

So yeah. We need to begin to contemplate an economy that does not require workers. What are people supposed to do in their spare time?

SciFi suggests the 1% will be moving to orbit soon. Most raw materials exist in the asteroids in staggering amounts. Most of the tech for that already exists.

Earth can contain what some writers term as the “mud people”. Think Haiti and Somalia. That’s the future.

(07-18-2018 09:50 AM)WMUlaxer97 Wrote:  What a lot of people screaming for $15/hr at fast food jobs don’t realize is that the tech to replace them already exists. Ordering kiosks, drink and burger making machines. What McD and BK is waiting for is the tipping point to make the capital costs make sense vs payroll/insurance of employees. Also society is soon more accepting of replacing people with machines (Meijer U Scan, Various kiosks, delivery drones & robots). Once the potential of negative press of replacing employees turns to apathy then someone will pull the trigger. The catalyst may be a new restaurant company that starts with automation and undercuts Wendy’s/McDs/Bk.

Bottom line is get trained to do work that can’t easily be replaced by machines or sent overseas.

McDonald also needs to contemplate the idea, if the working class has no job who will buy the burgers?