Every major shift WAS different from the one before.

What's DOUBLY different about this time is that this time we are not moving from skill to skill, we are moving from unskilled to something.

I truly despise the idea that there are no unskilled jobs because it is not just false, it's a counterproductive argument. All of us who have worked a variety of jobs know that some jobs require both talent and education, and others require mostly just a pulse and respiration. But people who work both kinds of jobs have essentially the same needs.

Which word did you find unclear? I don't remember stuttering.

They say they want more legal immigration, but then close down all the legal routes.

For example, there is a greater than 20 year waiting list for applications for family reunion visas for people in Mexico. For most practical purpose, there is no legal option. Same thing in the UK, the government bangs on about wanting safe and legal routes for refugees, but there aren't any. It's literally impossible for them to even apply for asylum without first illegally entering the country.

I don't buy that they even want people with skills either, not really. Again, in the UK they now can't bring their families. Who is going to come and work in the UK, probably doing some job that British citizens don't want like caring for the elderly, if they have to leave their family behind and there is no prospect of ever reuniting with them if they end up staying here? The message is clearly that they want people to leave as soon as they are of no use to us anymore, no matter how much they have contributed.

It used to be that children supported their parents into old age. Now their parents are the wealthy ones, with property that massively increased in value, while the adult children struggle with rent and high prices.

Hiding from the truth doesn't change it.

This is different in that the software will take the service jobs, and it's the same in that the people profiting from the switch don't give a fuck about you.

It's also true that those people have names and addresses, and we have lumber.

That was the joke alright, he doesn't think any of the action against Apple makes sense because he's in favor of anticompetitive behavior at the expense of customers for some sick reason, probably cognitive dissonance.

That's fine if you have an embarrassingly parallel problem which doesn't require a lot of data transfer between processors. There are jobs like that, of course, but those mac minis have pretty poor connectivity and having that many nodes means doing a lot of extra work to set up and maintain them. The EPYC processor (and to a lesser extent the Xeon) also offers very good price:performance. The minis come with a lot of extra case material that you have to pay for (including making it pretty) but don't really want.

I know, but this is the world we live in. The high cost of living and of accommodation gives women little choice.

Worse still there is little prospect of it getting better, because boomers will vote against anything that devalues property back to sane levels.

Most people half-ass parenting. I see it every time I go out into the world, and not just from the results (but that too.)

Having children later increases the risk of defects and complications, and it's not just because of older genetic material so freezing it isn't a complete solution. And it's true for both men and women, for their respective parts. If we want more people to have more kids (which is something I question at a time when jobs are being eliminated by automation) and we want those children to be as health as possible, then we need to make it more feasible for young people to be able to afford to do it.

That is not only generally false, but this time IS different. Since there is NOT always more work to be done, we have moved over to a service economy, where we CREATE more work to be done. BUT the software is now able to do many of those service jobs, and there's no other sector to move to. ALSO, every major technological advance HAS destroyed jobs, and some of those workers were left behind at every step. A lot of people DID become destitute, starve and even die due to the economic upheaval of the industrial revolution. If you want to invoke history and be taken seriously, you have to account for the parts you don't like, not just the parts you remember fondly.

Those service jobs were only viable because people had money, so as the percentage of service jobs has increased (it's now about 80%) the system has become more unbalanced because those jobs don't pay as well as more skilled jobs. (There may or may not be "unskilled" labor depending on who you ask, but there are definitely jobs which require more skill[s] than others.)

What industry do YOU think the low-talent service job employees are going to move into when there are no longer jobs for humans to read scripts on phones? When there are 10% or fewer jobs in fast food compared to now, because the work truly can be done by a bunch of robots plus one guy who knows how to clear jams in the burger printer and replace parts occasionally?

As an aside, that's actually legally the case in the UK. You can't sue for damages for having a child, e.g. because you raised them but found out you were not their biological parent, or your sperm was accidentally given to the wrong person at the fertility clinic etc. The law considered a child to always be a blessing, not something that can ever cause you financial loss.

It also says that the rate for that group is climbing, i.e. women are having children later. We see an increase in women freezing eggs when they are younger too.

It might be a case of you not knowing what you are missing, if you don't read/speak Chinese or Japanese. The characters are detailed and complex, but it seems that whatever translation you read isn't bringing those aspects over.

I got a nice bump up from British Airlines when they were unable to run a scheduled flight I had booked. They told us about half an hour before take-off that it was cancelled, so I immediately booked with ANA for a few hours later. That happened to be a first class upgrade, but it was the only seat they had, so I was entitled to it and BA had to pay the price which IIRC was around £4,500, when I only paid them about £800.

These days I always go with ANA or JAL anyway, BA have been terrible too many times.