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Job Automation & Naïve Libertarianism
The Robot Job Automation Threat will have drastic consequences for all types and levels of jobs. The degree of job displacement is becoming, and will continue to be, quantum and accelerative. This radically new and burgeoning dynamic is a game … Continue reading
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Robert Schiller on Job Automation
What does Nobel-Prize winning economist Robert Shiller think about the Coming Robot Job Automation Apocalypse? Robert Shiller, the Nobel-Prize winning economist who is the Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University, said that automation and artificial intelligence are the trends … Continue reading
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NYT Supports Job Automation
It’s quite remarkable how the Left (e.g., the NYT) went from being protectionist for the American working class to being the Champions of Globalism. In “No, Robots Aren’t Killing the American Dream”, the faceless NYT Editorial Board writes: Defenders of … Continue reading
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Cowen on Job Automation
Tyler Cowen, from Marginal Revolution, weighs in on the jobs-automation dilemma (“Industrial Revolution Comparisons Aren’t Comforting”): Consider, for instance, the history of wages during the Industrial Revolution. Estimates vary, but it is common to treat the Industrial Revolution as starting … Continue reading
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The Relentless Pace of Automation
In MIT Technology Review, Dave Rotman discusses “The Relentless Pace of Automation”: But many economists argue that automation bears much more blame than globalization for the decline of jobs in the region’s manufacturing sector and the gutting of its middle … Continue reading
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The Arc of Automation
In China, a brave new factory eliminates the vast majority of its workers, and productivity is up! One of China’s first unmanned factories in the city of Dongguan recently replaced 590 of its workers with robots and the results were … Continue reading
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On Future Automation
First, it was Blue Collar workers whose occupations were susceptible to outsourcing and the first waves of manufacturing automation, just as they were (and are) susceptible to high levels of illegal immigration. But these Blue Collar workers were (and still … Continue reading
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Stefan Molyneux vs. The Fascist
Stefan’s interlocutor (let’s call him The Fascist) gets the better of him on this one. Having been red-pilled in recent years, SM is struggling to preserve his anarcho-libertarian fetishization of individual ‘choice’, and the axiom of NAP, as the solution … Continue reading
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Robot Apocalypse – Pt. 3,183
From the WSJ (“Supersmart Robots Will Outnumber Humans Within 30 Years, Says SoftBank CEO”): BARCELONA—Within 30 years, artificial intelligence will be smarter than the human brain. That is according to Masayoshi Son, chief executive of SoftBank Group Corp., who says … Continue reading
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The Great Displacement: Robot Tax
Bill Gates throws out a theoretical variation of the inevitable when it comes to accelerating job automation: Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft and world’s richest man, said in an interview Friday that robots that steal human jobs should pay their … Continue reading
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