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RKP5637

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3. We're also moving toward a jobless society and I see few politicians even remotely discussing

Thu Dec 29, 2016, 10:57 PM

Dec 2016

the socioeconomic issues. Maybe it was here, truckers were discussing the implications of a driverless trucking industry, that the few well paying jobs to be found in many areas are in the trucking industry.

Amazon, for example, with their sky/drone distribution model in the future will eliminate many jobs as that model increases across many industries.

Financial intuitions can be replaced by AI, same with many doctors, etc. Yet none discuss the future. And Trump, he wants to dig for coal. We are so fucked into the future, it appears.

In many areas intelligence is not respected but disdained. The land of Idiocracy.

I'm glad I'm old.

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We're also moving toward a jobless society and I see few politicians even remotely discussing RKP5637 Dec 2016 #3

It's bothered me to see... Buckeye_Democrat Dec 2016 #5

I completely agree!!! These areas have been woefully neglected by politicians and industries across RKP5637 Dec 2016 #7

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