Exactly. The only way it will be possible to run out of jobs is if there truly was nothing left for anybody to do. If that day ever came, (will it? who knows) then we'd be living in the universe imagined by Gene Roddenberry where there's no more need for money.

Before you espouse socialism, understand what it is first. Socialism means that the government takes over the means of production, which is destructive on the economy for the same reason that monopolies are destructive (socialism effectively is the same thing as a monopoly.)

What you're describing is welfare, not socialism.

That said, I really don't think you're fit to give economic advisement to anybody.

If we put these doomsayers back about 40 years, they'd say the sky is falling for the telecom industry when switchboard operators were being replaced with automated circuit switching systems.

Some of medium.com's articles are really good, especially the ones about physics. But some of them (like this one) are either based on hearsay or make some really dumb assumptions.

Take for example the map they show that indicates that most of the states have trucking as their top income sector. If we rolled back the clock about 150 years, that entire map would show farming. 90% of the US population were farmers at that time. However as the industrial revolution progressed, those people moved away from farming and towards other sectors.

Right now what we're seeing is basically another industrial revolution, which began somewhere around 1995, something I myself want to refer to as the information revolution. Information technology (IT) is advancing at such a high rate that its encroaching into other sectors that previously had nothing to do with computers.

Where medium (and these other doomsayers) are going wrong is they just assume that overnight suddenly 10 million people will be out of a job. That isn't at all accurate. The trucking industry will probably continue to grow for about 5 more years, and after that it will see a slow but steady decline until it has very few members remaining, and those few members will retain their jobs. There will probably be far fewer people driving trucks, but more people managing them (be that route planning, load planning, maintenance, etc) because the number of trucks on the road is likely to continue increasing for the foreseeable future.

This has all happened before, and it will all happen again. Meanwhile Luddites will continue to be Luddites.

You're dead wrong. You know a job is needed when somebody is willing to pay you to do it. When I was doing my PC repair business in college, I would love to have had a sales person who could track down leads and find me customers. It would have made my work much more profitable, because people are looking for that all the time, however I don't have the skills to find them. Salespeople do.

There's actually a lot of things I found interesting about Nazis that is never mentioned in high school or college history books. For example, part of their ideology was...strangely...staunchly in favor of animal rights. Also, Jew genocide wasn't one of their initial goals; at first they were either putting Jews into forced labor camps (to build the German economy, but it wasn't only Jews that ended up there) or just simply deporting them out of Europe. That is, until Hitler came up with his final solution, then instead of pushing them out of Europe they suddenly started bringing them in en masse to send them to the death camps.

Another interesting thing is that a lot of gays don't seem to understand where the pink triangle came from. It was actually a marking that gay males were required to wear (like how Jews were required to wear a double yellow triangle; lesbians were to wear black triangles) and initially gay men were sent to camps where it was believed that they could be converted to being straight, and they were forced to have sex with women, among other things, but initially being executed wasn't one of those things.

Also interestingly, pink was considered to be a very masculine color prior to that era, and switched around that time. Related? Maybe...Maybe not.

Oh, and the 1942 era stealth bomber...

It could be the games themselves that are causing it rather than the platform.

I remember HL2 would cause me to get motion sick, but only on the level where you drove the fan boat through the acid canals and nowhere else.

The only other game to cause me to get motion sick was wolfenstein 3d if it was run on a modern computer. Older computers (that ran at a slower frame rate) didn't cause it for some reason.

Probably not, but I can name at least one president it doesn't describe: JImmy Carter. He was so damn emotional that he was basically worthless.

You forgot GMO, vaccines cause autism, and electromagnetic allergies.

On what precedent do you base that?

I recall NASA predicting complete loss of arctic sea ice by 2013, and the navy predicting the same in 2016.

The first didn't happen, not even close, and the second doesn't seem likely to happen.

It's like listening to the news about the doomsday clock; it just gets old after a while, and I don't give a damn what supposed bright minds are behind it.

You forgot to convert it to MIDI first, which any good hacker can do.

I think you're confusing a personal gain with a selfish gain. At the end of the day, everybody does what they do because it ultimately suits themselves, but that doesn't mean they are being selfish.

That said, a psychopath often also has a bond people who they consider "their own." Something that often (but not always) includes is family. In the case of a company, often they'll consider that to be their family, and put that ahead of others interests, including their own personal interests. For example, it can also be said that a very effective Army general's victory is his own goal. Erwin Rommel didn't really care for the Nazi movement, rather he was an effective general because he was given a job and he did that job at the expense of all else, including his own personal benefit.

Another thing psychopaths are known for is to have universal empathy for some things at the expense of all others. For example that might be babies or animals, which is often the motivation behind people who bomb abortion clinics (surprise, not all of them are religious) or groups like ALF who threaten physical violence against medical researchers who work with animals. Some also have universal empathy for things or concepts, like ELF who threaten physical violence against lumberjacks.

People like these often don't care if they end up in jail or in the electric chair, just so long as they believe they served a purpose that suits them.

Well maybe Kirk was a bit dispassionate. He cared a lot about Bones and Spock, but he only pretended to give a shit about the red shirts.

That's not far removed from Tony Soprano who loved his family, but at the end of the day only pretended to care for his mafiosos, and would turn on them if they weren't driving him a profit.

That's actually a fairly accurate description of our current president, and the people who voted for him twice.

I'm not an anti-vax person myself, but I do suspect that at least one of the vaccines I received in the Army caused my current chronic kidney disease, which is caused by a misformed IgA antibody. I suspect that because I have a familial history of Ceceliacs disease, which is suspected by some to be related to IgA Nephropathy, and the timeline of when I developed IgAn coincides perfectly with the progression of the disease and the time that I received those inoculations. That, and this:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...

Problem is this is hard to prove, and I doubt anybody would do any further serious research into it. Why won't they? Because the anti-vax movement has made anybody who does easily lose credibility, because the anti-vax movement repeatedly and often makes very stupid claims (autism? are you fucking kidding me?) that cause everybody else to come down hard on anybody who speaks honestly about any potential down sides of it.

There may very well be good reasons to not vaccinate in some cases, but those reasons will be hard to find when idiots keep crying wolf for no reason other than they happen to be Jenny McCarthy fans.

Still though, and I do myself admit, I still accept that it's better to have practically zero cases of polio in exchange for a few cases of IgA Nephropathy, even though I happened to get the shitty end of the stick (dialisys, which is where I'll probably end up very soon, is a lot better than an iron lung.) That said, even if it is proven that vaccination is the cause of my condition, I'll still support it anyways.

I'm not sure what point people who push that statistic are trying to get across. Being a psychopath doesn't inherently make you a bad person, it turns out that it's just a description of how your brain is physically wired.

In many respects, having your brain wired that way is quite useful. For example, any profession that requires a high sense of objectivity would be much better performed by somebody who can turn off emotion like a switch and only turn it on when it suits them, which is a common trait in psychopaths.

These kinds of people make great scientists, judges, journalists, lawyers, etc.