Ok I’m with you. As far as AI I can see it going in any number of directions both good and bad for humanity. I’m never one to make outright predictions, but among other things there is likely to be a relatively near to mid term earthquake in the labor market due to AI. The seeding comment seems appropriate there. It’s going to be an unpleasant ride for many workers including ones who thought they had the right knowledge and expertise to keep them secure.
Whether it’s ultimately good or bad depends on stuff I can’t be confident of.
The left has everyone convinced that their support base is in the poor, the working class, the homeless. This is not true. Their support base is found in rich inner-city electorates. In boardrooms. With bored, rich housewives.
None of these people ever interact with the downtrodden or leave their gated communities, so they don't even know there's a problem. They will continue to signal their virtue to their friends by voting "the correct way", right up until the day the peasants revolt.
You’ve put the cart before the horse, here, Brett. Progressivism is actually weak in the US.
Social welfare benefits and related things like annual leave allowance and sick leave for workers, child care subsidies, universal free health care coverage for all … and many others … are actually very deficient in the US compared with most other advanced western economies. The US medical system is internationally infamous for its vast cost as a fraction of government expenditure by comparison with the much lower figures in other countries which somehow at the same time manage to cover ALL of their citizens.
At the same time, of course, taxes are significantly lower in the US, while poverty levels are high by international standards.
None of this speaks of “progressivism,” but rather of unbridled capitalism, and misery for many.
Just look all this up on Wikipedia (if you know how).
And yet as capitalism has become more “bridled” and progressivism has grown dramatically all of these problems have gotten worse some of which I outlined in this piece. Also nothing screams condescending dipshit like questioning whether someone knows how to use wiki.
Thanks Brett, I was just thinking this morning about what seems insane to me like people protesting to protect trans kids. Why are so many people unable to process information and come to a logical conclusion? Like the anti capitalist crowd. It’s discouraging to me at times, so many people just want someone to tell them what is right and wrong they aren’t interested in thinking for themselves. Which makes this article so good it’s like a breath of fresh air in a stuffy room. I really do feel like the progressive bubble is bursting and my grandchildren will live in a better world. Very encouraging article.
Thanks Aladdin. I think for good or ill everyone assumes current trends will go on forever. I don’t know what happens next, and our problems are legion, but its not hopeless.
Social programs in europe are a bigger bubble, you know what that bubble is called Dr Hugh?
US defense spending. The US of A underwrites europes defense. All that money they don’t have to spend on defense goes to their social programs. If Trump actually pulls the plug and Europe has to start paying for guns instead of rainbow butter, you’re going to see so much shit you’ll need to call a plumber.
Well that guy by the office building was certainly seeding the ground.
Pretty sure nothing will want to grow there ever.
Just will share this, and get the word out. https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/a-letter-to-governors
all kinds of past, present, and former bubbles will succumb to the final bubble You have presented..
we must learn to “seed the ground we stand on”…
Not sure I understand the seed part, but I agree things are likely coming to a head sooner rather than later.
the seed part Brett is simply assuring the ground we harvest from is suitable for the next years harvest..
vs the extractive nature of AI and the machine learning algorithm’s that can’t discern how much is enough ..
Amazon, Apple, Meta and Microsoft are the only 4 remaining organizations left standing ..
who’s the winner ? not the human race …
Ok I’m with you. As far as AI I can see it going in any number of directions both good and bad for humanity. I’m never one to make outright predictions, but among other things there is likely to be a relatively near to mid term earthquake in the labor market due to AI. The seeding comment seems appropriate there. It’s going to be an unpleasant ride for many workers including ones who thought they had the right knowledge and expertise to keep them secure.
Whether it’s ultimately good or bad depends on stuff I can’t be confident of.
The left has everyone convinced that their support base is in the poor, the working class, the homeless. This is not true. Their support base is found in rich inner-city electorates. In boardrooms. With bored, rich housewives.
None of these people ever interact with the downtrodden or leave their gated communities, so they don't even know there's a problem. They will continue to signal their virtue to their friends by voting "the correct way", right up until the day the peasants revolt.
You’ve put the cart before the horse, here, Brett. Progressivism is actually weak in the US.
Social welfare benefits and related things like annual leave allowance and sick leave for workers, child care subsidies, universal free health care coverage for all … and many others … are actually very deficient in the US compared with most other advanced western economies. The US medical system is internationally infamous for its vast cost as a fraction of government expenditure by comparison with the much lower figures in other countries which somehow at the same time manage to cover ALL of their citizens.
At the same time, of course, taxes are significantly lower in the US, while poverty levels are high by international standards.
None of this speaks of “progressivism,” but rather of unbridled capitalism, and misery for many.
Just look all this up on Wikipedia (if you know how).
And yet as capitalism has become more “bridled” and progressivism has grown dramatically all of these problems have gotten worse some of which I outlined in this piece. Also nothing screams condescending dipshit like questioning whether someone knows how to use wiki.
Thanks Brett, I was just thinking this morning about what seems insane to me like people protesting to protect trans kids. Why are so many people unable to process information and come to a logical conclusion? Like the anti capitalist crowd. It’s discouraging to me at times, so many people just want someone to tell them what is right and wrong they aren’t interested in thinking for themselves. Which makes this article so good it’s like a breath of fresh air in a stuffy room. I really do feel like the progressive bubble is bursting and my grandchildren will live in a better world. Very encouraging article.
Thanks Aladdin. I think for good or ill everyone assumes current trends will go on forever. I don’t know what happens next, and our problems are legion, but its not hopeless.
Social programs in europe are a bigger bubble, you know what that bubble is called Dr Hugh?
US defense spending. The US of A underwrites europes defense. All that money they don’t have to spend on defense goes to their social programs. If Trump actually pulls the plug and Europe has to start paying for guns instead of rainbow butter, you’re going to see so much shit you’ll need to call a plumber.