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Right. But, a lot of so called work doesn't really produce anything tangible. Many jobs are the equivalent of a daycare center for adults. Designed to keep people *busy*. As I mentioned above, there are many jobs that could disappear and society would not fall apart. OTOH, there are many jobs that are necessary. Blue collar jobs where people make, build and fix things. Service industry jobs where people provide products, goods and entertainment. Transportation-related jobs are vitally important to an economy. Entertainment is a job. The pandemic actually showed that people could work from home instead of commuting back and forth and causing traffic jams. In most white collar jobs, 60% of the work involves a computer and the other 40% is meetings. In the future, many of those computer-based jobs will be replaced by AI. Higher unemployment. It is true that many people who are accustomed to the routine of being a hamster on a wheel when told to get off don't know what to do with themselves. Some of them atrophy and die. I know a whole lot of people who have been retired the majority of their lives. Never really worked anywhere. Most wealthy people and their families don't have to work. They aren't running around committing mass suicide either. The number of people who can be supported by one person with millions or billions of dollars is exponential. The same applies to countries with countries with socialist governments. There's a reason we hear talk of reducing the number of hours per week that people work. Provide more free time in an effort to increase quality of life.

Bingo. Always in effect. Amazingly, too many Black folks either want to 1) pretend that it doesn't exist or 2) afraid and/or too lazy to fight it or 3) anesthetize themselves through escapism and gross consumerism.

For those so fortunate, every day will be like the weekend or whatever day folks don't have to do physical labor in order to survive. Already, there are many jobs that are glorified welfare. IOW, the world would not stop spinning if nobody sat in that office or cubicle. AI will allow those people to literally sit at home and collect their UBI (Universal Basic Income). It will be very similar to retirees, folks on worker's compensation, disability and welfare, etc. . There is always a few billion people on the planet who have never had to work a day in their lives. We call them children. As I mentioned in another thread, most people in oil rich countries don't work to survive. The job is more of an avocation. Civilization will not collapse just because a few billion people are on permanent vacation. There's no shortage of real work that has to be done. No way to outsource it. Not even technologically.

Politicians and pundits are showing their Pro-Israel support from funding to showing up on campus to stand with the Jews. Of course, these same folks are calling for the university president to be fired for failure to control the campusc e.g. shutdown protest. Since 1948, Israel has been a US protectorate in the Middle East. The Jews playbook could be a case study in nation building.

My vehicle of choice is a truck but I'm not a truck driver by profession. I realize AI is being used to produce content right now. I'm looking at a future of AI lawnmowers. A higher tech version of that Roomba vacuum cleaner.

I'm curious to see how long it will take before AI can relieve me of having to do yard work, fix things and knock out home improvement jobs just to name a few.

The US has a military base in Niger mainly to launch drones. Niger wants us out of there. Not to be undone, the US wants to *negotiate* favorable terms to maintain a presence there.

Too cute. That lion cub will be a future king.

There are a couple reasons but 1) white folks can never be on the bottom and 2) money. Drug addiction fuels the economy in many ways just like cancer and every other incurable disease or condition.

Survival mode has become status quo. Socialism in the form of a UBI (Universal Basic Income) is inevitable as technology wipes out more jobs in America. Of course, we already have an idea of how UBI will be distributed based on the current system.

I hope that AfroAmericans find themselves and realize their true potential and real power. Millennials and Gen Z won't be condescending as it relates to any generation preceding them because 1) they're absorbed in social media and their present and 2) Black history is being whitewashed. No offense intended. I have much reverence for the pioneers who led the movement and paid the ultimate price with their lives. The beneficiaries of the struggle...we need to talk.

MmnLQ Definitely two of the biggest distractions.

I still hope that Black America will become united in 1) having more love for each other, 2) creating opportunities to build generational wealth, 3) coming up with interests to which politicians can be held accountable, 4) demanding reparations and 5) replacing the system of racism white supremacy with justice. Again, I know its a tall order. But, it's the only way we're going to overcome the racism that affects all of us.

If Africa was allowed to control its natural resources, it would be one of if not the wealthiest continents on the planet.

Drugs were dropped into Black communities on purpose. The war on drugs criminalized everybody involved in one way or another. Interestingly, crystal meth and opioids are supposedly a *problem* in white communities. Yet, there is no war on them. The punishments aren't the same either.