AI has already made just about anyone who knows how to use it vastly richer. You can get (often better) medical diagnosis without taking time off from work, navigate a will and a tax return without having to hire a lawyer, figure out how to structure investments without hiring a financial manager, learn exactly what steps to take and what you need to buy to do a home repair. Have an idea of something to sell? You can offload a lot of figuring out market fit, advertising, business structure, etc. People who want to be entrepreneurs have a lot less holding them back.

As for killing economic activity, I realize you view all of those all as net losses to society since no six or seven figure salary professional gets to send a massive bill in the mail. But for my part I am buying **more things** things because AI is helping me find out exactly what I need - often solutions I hadn't realized were available. And I am engaging **more** services for the same reason - not every home repair is feasible with AI help, but I can use it to find out when and what professionals are needed, expected cost, and who is licensed and well-reviewed.

Effectively having an auto-shopper buy all sorts of stuff for me and hire services I previously didn't have time to verify would be a net benefit is supposed to "reduce" economic activity???

If we even buy into the theory that humans or some group of humans will be completely sidelined by the AI economy, to the point they don't have jobs - might not those extraneous humans still want to eat? And might not they turn to finding ways to produce their own food? And wouldn't some of them need to work on the necesssary equipment? And isn't it conceivable they would start trading skills and material for food, mediated by some agreed upon means of exchange? And if some portion of that food or material might be even the least bit useful to anyone in the AI economy, might not they trade with them as well?

There is not going to be an end to economic activity. Economic activity isn't whatever is leftover for humans to do after the machines finish, economic activity is whatever humans (A) want and (B) can obtain. 'A' is limitless; 'B' only increases over time.

The C-Suite is filled with ignorant people who have made a career out taking credit for other people's work.

Now they want to pretend that the "AI is writing the code" just because a developer is making use of it.

All AI is doing is giving CEOs an excuse to called yet another group of workers, "unskilled."

Teachers are paid for 40 hours per week. And not well. Current starting salaries are enough to afford to live in a ditch.

They teach 5 classes per day. They get 1 period free when students cannot come into their classroom. Plus 1 hour before school and 1 hour after school when students can come in.

The system thinks grading papers and preparing lessons are free services that teachers provide.

The system will do anything but hire more teachers so that they each can have 3 periods per day and spend the rest of the time grading, prepping, and helping students during their paid hours.

Don't worry, the skilled trades will be devalued as well. They already are.

Companies just don't want to pay proper wages and will make every lame excuse they can to justify it.

Most people who work full time struggle just to pay rent.

They aren't "irresponsible."

They have to pay their rent and put food on the table. If business owners paid living wages, people wouldn't be playing games just to survive.

There are no shortage of stores you can go into today where these "job creators" have one poverty wage employee working.

That's all this is about. Skilled labor thinks they're worth money. Unskilled labor can be paid minimum wage.

It's long past time for developers to unionize and stop playing the game of letting rich people oppress workers by demeaning them to justify poverty wages.

It remains ridiculous that schools continue to view themselves as extrajudicial courts where they get to demand your testimony and then extract pretext to punish you according to their sensibilities of the moment.

Keep in mind you are often not allowed to have legal counsel but they start by telling you "oh just an informality"*

pay for them.

You pay for 40 hours a week, you get 40 hours a week.

At this point virtually all the multi-billion dollar tech companies are American or Chinese. Europe's combined startup revenue over the last 50 years is less than Home Depot. The EU's GDP has been Welp, THAT was a big mistake.

If you want to set ground rules fine. But if the output of *your particular attempt* at it is to get effectively zero innovation and declining economic output, shouldn't the conclusion be "wow we seem to be really bad at this we may need to adjust our approach"?

as if 2 voices cried out in terror and then were silenced.

virus and malware have been doing this forever. The difference is that they are very small programs so they can do this instantly.

If you get the USB-3 cable, you can use the Quest as a standard VR headset connected to your PC. Since the Switch 2 has far better hardware than the Switch and USB-C video out, that makes it possible in theory for the Quest to be a VR headset for the Switch 2 as well.

Of course not.

Work the hours you're paid. Go home.

We already know how to build cheap high density housing with shared resources: Motel 6.

Shared bathrooms are not ideal. Every unit needs its own full bath so people can keep themselves clean.

A bed and a space to work are sufficient. Basically, a one-bedroom apartment minus the kitchen. The kitchen should be a community resource with staff like is done for public schools.

"Kids" seems an odd place to draw the line in this case. I think most adults also are a bit vulnerable stepping into a complete stranger's car and might also prefer not to be assaulted?