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kcr

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19. They're only concerned because right now they'd be out on the street.

Reply to hughee99 (Reply #17)

Mon Mar 18, 2019, 01:49 AM

Mar 2019

How is it the same if the point is they shouldn't have to learn to code/eat cake/die in the streets just because they lost their job? You make no sense.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says labor should not fear automation [View all] applegrove Mar 2019 OP

K&R. Read the list of emerging technologies on Wikipedia, it's amazing ck4829 Mar 2019 #1

Her utopianism does not appear to be well thought out. RelativelyJones Mar 2019 #2

' . . . if you don't have a job, you are left to die, . . . '. empedocles Mar 2019 #3

Except automation isn't the proximal reason people don't have jobs and are left to die ck4829 Mar 2019 #4

Historically, employers using automation are not 'primarily'/ or much concerned', with empedocles Mar 2019 #6

It would be great if we finally realized Sherman A1 Mar 2019 #5

What good does fearing automation do, when it's inevitable? It's best to embrace and plan for future TheBlackAdder Mar 2019 #8

Misleading headline. Her view is more that labor should not HAVE to fear automation Tom Rinaldo Mar 2019 #7

In a world that wasn't run by selfish shortsighted accumulators of wealth and power... hunter Mar 2019 #9

Throughout history, technology has improved. And there is no stopping it. nt USALiberal Mar 2019 #10

That needs study though treestar Mar 2019 #11

This sounds like a fancy way to say "Learn to code". hughee99 Mar 2019 #12

It's not about giving people more free time kcr Mar 2019 #13

Actually, her statement is quite literally about people having more free time. hughee99 Mar 2019 #15

Seriously? It's the free time people are worried about? kcr Mar 2019 #16

Yes, thank you. People are concerned about not being able to afford what they need. hughee99 Mar 2019 #17

They're only concerned because right now they'd be out on the street. kcr Mar 2019 #19

Because right now, automation is coming but a system hughee99 Mar 2019 #20

We shouldn't have to, absolutely. But that's only half the message. WhiskeyGrinder Mar 2019 #14

It doesn't add up RandySF Mar 2019 #18

I much prefer her direction of thought in this area to that of Yang. NT WeekiWater Mar 2019 #21