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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    CL: "What's the weirdest issue that people aren't thinking about that you know of?"
    Jack: Job loss through Automation, Robotics and Out Sourcing. Other than Yang, I haven't seen anyone address this. It's like the Elephant in the Room that Everyone is Ignoring.
    Ooh I like it! What is humanity going to do when human labor becomes less valuable in industrialized economies? What about all those jobs? I've read 50% of current jobs could be automated.

    Society would have to evolve to appreciate art and leisure time more. Either that or eat the rich lol. But really the history of Luddite behavior is pinned to being made jobless by technology. How do we grapple with this when it flies in the face of capitalism?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Miss Margot Frank View Post
    He's right!They will be here trolling
    We're 16 posts in and they haven't shown up. I can start another. It'll only show they're jealous if they crash the party. Let's dance until dawn!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    I can see it whittled down to Bernie and Bloomberg.
    Forget Bloomberg and his talk of denying older patients.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crocodile View Post
    Not much you can do. No one really is able to or will force companies to hire workers rather than use automation. Many types of workers just aren't needed. They need people to use computers, run machines as well as fix the mechanics of said machines.
    CrocMan: "Not much you can do."
    Jack: If you see a Tsunami coming your way, ... "Not much you can do" is the Wrong Answer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    CrocMan: "Not much you can do."
    Jack: If you see a Tsunami coming your way, ... "Not much you can do" is the Wrong Answer.
    You can take shelter to the high ground in a tsunami. You can't make jobs magically appear our continue after they are archaic or no longer needed. Outsourcing is kind of late to deal with as most big companies already have setups abroad. If you try too much there isn't much stopping them from packing up shop and carrying out operations more abroad.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Casual Leftist View Post
    Ooh I like it! What is humanity going to do when human labor becomes less valuable in industrialized economies? What about all those jobs? I've read 50% of current jobs could be automated.

    Society would have to evolve to appreciate art and leisure time more. Either that or eat the rich lol. But really the history of Luddite behavior is pinned to being made jobless by technology. How do we grapple with this when it flies in the face of capitalism?
    Years ago when 'Luddites' was a chic epitaph, Unemployment benefits, Food Stamps, Project housing, and MedicAid was created to address the problem of Excess People.
    Now, as Automation is replacing more Human Labor, these Government programs may have run their course.

    Yang proposed a UBI (Universal Basic Income) as a 'solution' in the form of his 'Freedom Dividend'. I have no idea what the answer is, but at least he was thinking about it and realized it was an issue that needed to be addressed.

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    Now, our Right-wing friends have an Answer to this Problem.
    It's called 'For-Profit' Prisons.
    The 'Excess People' are incarcerated, either as 'Guards' or 'Prisoners'.
    It's a clever device to 'make money' and solve the Problem at the same time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    Years ago when 'Luddites' was a chic epitaph, Unemployment benefits, Food Stamps, Project housing, and MedicAid was created to address the problem of Excess People.
    Now, as Automation is replacing more Human Labor, these Government programs may have run their course.

    Yang proposed a UBI (Universal Basic Income) as a 'solution' in the form of his 'Freedom Dividend'. I have no idea what the answer is, but at least he was thinking about it and realized it was an issue that needed to be addressed.
    Those programs will need to be expanded. But we need an identity check for a society that will no longer see value in the protestant work ethic because there will be substantially less work to do. Or at the very least the nature of human labor will have to change. Maybe 4 day work weeks. We most assuredly need job training programs for the jobs of the future so people can transition if they lose their job.

    I wonder if we'll ever face the ethical question of robot slavery.

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    "I wonder if we'll ever face the ethical question of robot slavery."


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    Quote Originally Posted by Casual Leftist View Post
    Ooh I like it! What is humanity going to do when human labor becomes less valuable in industrialized economies? What about all those jobs? I've read 50% of current jobs could be automated.

    Society would have to evolve to appreciate art and leisure time more. Either that or eat the rich lol. But really the history of Luddite behavior is pinned to being made jobless by technology. How do we grapple with this when it flies in the face of capitalism?
    Countries that are a lot less afraid of the "socialism" boogeyman than ours have been grappling with this issue for a while now. That's when the concept of a guaranteed income is brought up. We will always need less-skilled ppl for service type jobs; along with providing two years of community college at no cost, let's also fund trade schools for those who are not interested in academic learning.
    "Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain

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    Quote Originally Posted by Casual Leftist View Post
    It's the Casual Leftist on JPP trying to create a left wing space for discussion. And whats more casual than a couch conversation? Lets have a hang out. Lets hash things out.

    What as a leftist do you think about the future of the 2nd progressive movement? What problems should we pay more attention to? Lets talk it out w/o right wing know-nothings interfering in the conversation.

    If they show up, just ignore them. Or inform me how to ban them post creation of the thread.
    In others words, what you want is an echo chamber where only what you want to hear can be stated.

    Didn't your mommy teach you that not everyone is going to agree with you.

    Thread ban me. It will prove far more about the weakling you are you than anything else.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    Countries that are a lot less afraid of the "socialism" boogeyman than ours have been grappling with this issue for a while now. That's when the concept of a guaranteed income is brought up. We will always need less-skilled ppl for service type jobs; along with providing two years of community college at no cost, let's also fund trade schools for those who are not interested in academic learning.
    I'm not fully on board with UBI, but automation does make the best case for it. And you'd be surprised how many low skill service jobs can be replaced - self driving cars represents a huge chuck of lost jobs. Even high skill service jobs can be replaced by a computer.

    And for other countries, especially more 3rd world ones, they are closer to going the luddite route which implies a preexisting level of social community and a reaction to how technology has changed that relationship - and mechanization is no different than automation . In college I remember reading about rice farmers in Malaysia. It used to employ hundreds of people per farm and they'd all get very substatial Christmas bonuses as part of the cultural relationship between employer and employee - but due to mechanization - most got laid off. Those rice workers came back and destroyed those new farm equipment. And threatened if anyone else modernized they'd do it again.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CFM View Post
    In others words, what you want is an echo chamber where only what you want to hear can be stated.
    No, I just don't want trolls or people who have such a different way of viewing things that any conversation is impossible because we can't even agree on basic facts or logic.

    Didn't your mommy teach you that not everyone is going to agree with you.
    I actually look forward to disagreement. But among people who generally agree those disagreements would less hostile and would be capable of talking about the issue in similar terms of understanding.

    Thread ban me. It will prove far more about the weakling you are you than anything else.
    If you an your ilk become a problem I will. Getting rid of trolls is not a sign of weakness.

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    I laughed through the first 30 minutes and this was my conclusion:

    "When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."


    A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
    Author: Booker T. Washington



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    Unless you just can't stand the idea of "ni**ers" teaching white kids.


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    Address the topic, not other posters.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Casual Leftist View Post
    No, I just don't want trolls or people who have such a different way of viewing things that any conversation is impossible because we can't even agree on basic facts or logic.



    I actually look forward to disagreement. But among people who generally agree those disagreements would less hostile and would be capable of talking about the issue in similar terms of understanding.



    If you an your ilk become a problem I will. Getting rid of trolls is not a sign of weakness.
    Just like I said. You only want to hear from those with which you agree, an echo chamber, then try to blame it on others by calling them names. I couldn't have predicted it any more accurately than I did.

    You just said you don't. Again, as predicted, you confirm you want an echo chamber of those with "similar terms of understanding?

    Calling someone a troll because you only want to hear what you agree with is a sign of weakness.

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