The minimum wage for robots will always be 0 dollars an hour
Your job exists until either 1) your wages, inclusive of benefits, exceed the value you produce, or 2) the technology exists to produce and maintain a robot that could perform it for cheaper than your wages
Governmental efforts to avoid this reality inevitably end with people stuck in poverty producing goods in horribly inefficient ways and yet being terrified of any release from their condition (see, e.g., the farmers in India)
The insoluble problem of the future is that humanity already requires less labor than humanity produces, and the problem is likely to get worse. How do we keep 60% of the population working when the other 40% doesn’t need to? How do we replace the dignity and self worth of a job?
These questions are existential threats to society as we know it and instead we are spending 90% of our mental energy on the drawings in Dr. Seuss books.
Of all the dystopian novels/movies, the one that frightened me most was WALL-E. Not the mountains of garbage part, that part was nonsensical. The part about humans ending up as giant blobs strapped in floating chairs with screens 6 inches in front of our faces, managed by bots
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My Octopus Teacher is possibly the worst project ever recorded on video. Everyone involved in making it, funding it, and green lighting it should be fired into the sun.
Most especially this applies to the human protagonist, who somehow expects to be praised for abandoning his entire life, including kids, because he saw a fucking octopus.
The entire conceit of the film is also a transparent lie: it was obviously made with a large film crew and (sadly) was not the project of one weirdo loser. I’m angry that my love of nature documentaries suckered me into watching it.
Boy, am I seeing a lot of overheated and misguided commentary about the Liz Cheney vote. Here's what the vote does and does not mean. 1/
The vote was not at all a referendum on Trump or Trumpism within the House GOP. Trump already won those votes overwhelmingly when only 10 House members voted to impeach him. 2/
It was won before that when virtually all House Republicans, including Cheney, endorsed and voted for Trump in 2020. The overwhelming majority of the House caucus voted both a) not to impeach Trump and b) not to remove Cheney from leadership for disagreeing, 3/
I gotta say: when the Jacob Blake story broke, I did not believe there might be a possible circumstance where a person being shot in the back seven times would be justified. After a full recounting of the facts in the case, it seems Blake worked really hard at it. 1/
By his own admission, he was armed with a knife. He struggled with a police officer while holding that same knife, and refused orders to drop the knife even while being held at gunpoint. 2/
But it doesn't even stop there. Police were summoned into contact with Blake by an ex who had an order of protection against him due to a sexual assault and had reported to police that he was back (obviously in violation of that order) and had stolen her rental car & keys. 3/
Two things are both true at once. The first is that anyone who used violence or threat of violence in an attempt to overturn the election results yesterday engaged in a form of domestic terrorism and should have the book thrown at them. 1/
The second is that BLM protesters this summer stormed government buildings, forcibly occupied them, burned and damaged them, assaulted police officers, and literally took command of entire areas of major American cities. 2/
The media immediately and correctly leapt to call the first group terrorists, insurrectionists, a mob, and rioters. They called the second group "mostly peaceful protesters." 3/
Ho boy do I have words to say about these remarks from Birx
Let me start by saying that no one should be harassing or threatening public officials' families. To the extent that people may have broken the law in doing so, I hope law enforcement gets involved and holds the people responsible accountable. 2/
Part two, and separate from that, STFU. I mean this with all the respect I can muster, which at the moment is zero. Does this woman not understand that there are MILLIONS of families who have been going through this same exact stuff because SHE TOLD THEM TO?? 3/