Declaration of Independence
Abolition of slavery
The light bulb
The computer
The internet
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Also, and unimportantly...Americans like roomy cars.

There are plenty of small cars available in America. They just aren't that popular.

When a device is "bricked" that means it can't be repaired. I'm pretty sure these Jeeps will be possible to repair.

Only problem is old software is also vulnerable to hacking.

Yes, I agree with that, but that's not what you initially said. You said this:

Those are very different things. The government's job (specifically, the Fed's job) is to strive for low inflation and maximum employment. They have just a few tools to accomplish those objectives. They can control the Fed Funds rate (the interbank interest rate you always hear about in the news) and they can strategically purchase or sell securities.

The government's job is to *incentivise* companies to employ more people. That is not the same as making *sure* people are employed. Nor does it mean the government must or should ensure that (good) jobs are available in rural areas.

The Great Depression wasn't caused by automation. It was caused by a giant stock market bubble, bank panics, and excessive tariffs. https://www.britannica.com/sto... Nice try.

It is certainly not the government's job to make sure people are employed regardless of the life choices they make. No government in the world does that, nor should they.

Should the government make sure people are employed, who are unwilling to get up out of bed? What about those who never want to leave their home or their bedroom? Or those who never want to wear clothes? It's ridiculous to suggest that the government should make sure people are employed despite their own choices.

The government is not our babysitter. Freedom means that we have choices. We can live where we choose, we can live in the kind of home we choose, we can do the kind of work we choose. And it also means that we have to accept the consequences of those choices.

In real life, if you want income, you have to work. And if you want to work, you have to lift a finger. You have to do what it takes to get that job. And if you want a better job, you have to go where better jobs are to be found.

I make no such assumption. People take different kinds of jobs with different kinds of benefits, or no benefits, for all kinds of reasons. My wife has a part time job with no benefits because she doesn't want to work full time, and she's covered under my insurance. That's her choice, and mine. It's not necessarily an evil system.

But this is a distraction. You are trying to assert that AI is going to be the end of employment. That is not the case. Will everything be fair and nice and rosy? No. It already isn't.

You're clearly not reading mine either. Machines have already been replacing people for decades (farming, factory work). How is this any different?

Excellent choice. And it's *your* choice, not one that is dictated to you by some nebulous "ruling class." Choices come with consequences, both good and bad. If you choose small town life, you get quality of life, and few jobs. That's pretty much how it works.

This argument makes no sense. Work can be great, even if you do get paid for it. It's not a charity, after all. We work to live, and if we can get paid for work that's fun, so much the better.

Incidentally, people who are good at something, tend to enjoy doing that something, and vice versa, people who enjoy doing something, tend to enjoy their work. Combine that with competent leadership (rare, I know), and you have a place people want to work.

There's a name for this: Private Equity.

Ruling class...huh? Letting them look down? Who exactly is doing that, and what does that even mean?

Apparently you haven't done much driving among big city skyscrapers. GPS is very intermittent in large hubs of cities like NYC, Chicago, LA, Houston, and Dallas. Sometimes, when coming out of a parking garage, it can take minutes before the GPS picks up your location.

I was an 80's computer geek, and I still thought the original story was lame. But it was still fun.