Why don't you run for office

There are still people out there who think regular folks can run for office and not be instantly destroyed/disqualified by the Establishment?

You can't run as part of one of the two parties in the US if the party doesn't want you (e.g. Stephen Colbert), and you don't get serious media attention unless you belong to one of the two parties (e.g. Jill Stein) -- and even if you do belong to one of the two major parties, you don't really get any serious attention if the handful of people who own the media don't like you (e.g. Ron Paul).

99% of Americans can't just "run" for political office even if they had the time and money to do so. The system has evolved prevent that sort of thing.

How do you choose not to believe something? A person is either convinced something is true or he isn't.

Sorry, but you're going to have to clarify your comment here because of Poe's Law.

It would be nice if the makeup of the professions of people who become Congressmen and Senators at least somewhat reflects the makeup of the professions of the actual people. We need scientists and accountants and grocery store clerks and laborers in the gov't, not a gov't made up of 99% lawyers.

Gartner says new technologies are decreasing jobs. In the industrial revolution â" and revolutions since â" there was an invigoration of jobs.

So, the guy didn't learn from the Industrial Revolution (and revolutions since) that all the fear of 'no more jobs for anyone' ended up being unfounded?

New technologies don't decrease the number of available jobs; wealth sequestration among the super-rich does. With the Middle Class having less and less money to spend, the demand for products -- and the jobs required to create them -- goes down. We've been seeing this over the past thirty years, which just happens to coincide with the rise of the computing industry.

Agreed. Abelson should be ashamed of himself.

Can someone tell me why it's newsworthy that MIT clowns exonerate themselves & blame their victim?

Other than to demonstrate how low some people can go.

Good god, man.

Do you mean douchebag

It exists in production and is available for purchase.

Then our options are to fix this related "slips on the floor" problem or to leave all problems as-is.

There is no middle ground anymore theres the far left and the far right and a giant gulf in the middle with a few real centrists mixed in.

Let me fix that for you:

There is no middle ground anymore theres the right and the far right and a giant gulf to the left with a few real centrists mixed in.

Great that you found good people to handle those important things.

http://www.worldometers.info/