Message from @Andrules
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sounds a lot like my country
because if they did it in a proper way, it'd be a whole lot of paperwork and take a long time
except the money goes to the politicians pockets instead of the country
also that would set up a very ugly precedent, where individual responsibility is diminished further and entities take on that burden
it'd lead to more regulation not just in the gun industry but the whole economy
at best, yang is a foolish idealist who has no footing in reality
at worst he is doing this all with malicious intent
i am a bit of an idealist, but i also try to stay grounded because it is easy to just be lost in the world of the ideal
that's right. by fining the companies, you're effectively saying that the guns are at fault and not the gun user
yes
and that will be applied to other products, because why wouldn't it?
it is one thing when it is a civil lawsuit against a company
it is another when it is the government itself dishing out these fines
it also elevates the role of government to judge
Too many people think “automation” will just appear over night. So their solution is government money to support unemployment.
Or laws to slow down technology.
Automated trucking, like what was mentioned in the video, is something we know is desired. It’s currently a long way off though. With that in mind, the trucking industry should be looking into compensating for that shift when it happens.
Obviously the first wave of self driving trucks will be incredibly expensive and out of reach for most businesses.
Shit most tech we have now was once incredibly expensive
I think the best policy is for the government to allow/encourage businesses to progress everywhere so that when that “sudden” change happens, millions of people aren’t out of work.
Adjusted for inflation a black and white 13 inch TV costs more than a 70 inch 4K smart TV
Phones did the same thing.
@Andrules A fully automated industry will put a lot of people out of work. Sure, new jobs will come out of that, but the goal is to have a society where people don't need to work as hard. 1k a month helps get people on their feet. I know it sounds unrealistic, and Yang is definitely ahead of his time.
But this isn't something that is 'unrealistic' in the future.
I mean, people thought electricity was sorcery once. People thought Y2k and shit.
I don't think anyone thought electricity was magic. It's a relatively recent discovery.
Y2K bug made sense, because no computer had ever seen a millennial change
There was a bug in one of the windows OS that after X number of hours of nonstop use, the software would have a catastrophic failure.
cite where people thought "electricity was sorcery"
no, yang is not "ahead of his time"
what he talks about is nothing groundbreaking or profound
it has been a legitimate concern for the last 20 years
tech people have been talking about the rise of automation for a long while
and trying to offer solutions to this seeming inevitability
1k will help no one for the reasons i have stated
it will help a very small amount of people and just screw over everyone else in the long run
What would help is ww3
Pakistan and India look like they want to start it
Iran is about to pull us in too
once we get an automated industry, people will learn how to be technicians, and there'll be a huge demand for technicians.