Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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Kind of an overlap here with another discussion on this board about good science fiction reading, specifically the Harlan Ellison short story "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream". Artificial intelligence run amok.
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Fears About Technology Replacing Humans
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One thing machines can't do is consume - and someone needs to get paid in order to spend money to maintain the machines they use. As long as we have a capitalistic society, humans need to be employed in order to spend on consumption. As long as corporation influence governments and governments are controlled by money, corporations will make sure that humans are employed. Now, many humans will need to be retrained and be angry and resentful that things can't go on as they used to and that AI/machines have ruined society and made things more difficult instead of easier. Sound familiar? That's also been going on for centuries and here in The Villages, those complaints are endless. But, the end of human employment and more poverty because of it? That is not the future of this country and the world - at least not if history is our guide and basic logic still applies. |
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There was a time when most people were farmers and they worked sunup to sundown for 7 days a week. The advance of labor saving technology should reduce the burden on the workforce and allow people to work fewer hours. The 40 hour work week is an arbitrary standard that should be reduced with advances in technology. People like Klaus Schwab are the problem because they want people to "own nothing and be happy". We have lived with a dishonest money system our entire life and most people think it is normal to live paycheck to paycheck. The creature from Jekyll Island is worse than any science fiction monster. The dishonest money system siphons wealth from who they see as "useless eaters" and gives the "elites" ever more wealth and power.
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Houses can be built on an assembly line with fewer workers than on site. And have better quality control.
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......With factory jobs decreasing, the middle class is decreasing and has less power. The US is moving (due to tax percentages and intervals that favor the rich) toward having 2 classes - the highly educated upper class and the minimally educated low class together with the unemployables. And without a strong middle class America will cease to be America and an internal or external takeover is more possible. ............Moving manufacturing offshore to countries like China could have been the beginning of the end. ........Another problem associated with high unemployment would likely be more crime as people see their less successful future. Last edited by jimjamuser; 03-02-2024 at 04:53 PM. Reason: add an idea |
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.........And in 1950 there was about 125,000,000 people in the US. Now there are around 350,000,000 legal ones. .........You mentioned some good answers to some problems. But, there are more problems that I can think of just off the top of my head. The Supreme Court needs term limits. Congress needs term limits. That won't happen. In my opinion, 4 people are controlling the US today. .........about 3 or 4 Supreme Court Justices and one man (with glasses) in the house. |
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