True. The only workers who aren't fungible are people who have become indispensable. People are only indispensable if they are the only ones who know a system well enough to keep it working, and it's not practical to teach anyone else. The only systems like that are complex systems, for which the effort and expense that goes into keeping the system running as it currently exists should by rights be going into making the system less complex, but isn't.

Because there's no incentive to. The rational thing for a worker in a collaborative environment to do is to intentionally introduce complexity at every opportunity. This makes them more indispensable. It makes it harder for everybody else to work with it, of course, and after years of this sort of thing, the system will collapse, sometimes taking the company with it. But hey, those are the incentives that management put in place.

Great! I'll add these 3D-woven clothes to my existing large collection of useful 3D-printed objects, which contains:

• 1. A train of tiny gears connected only to themselves, and whose crank handle broke off the instant I tried to turn it.
• 2. The bottom half of a model of the head of Suzanne the Monkey, the test mesh from Blender3D, with a bunch of plastic spaghetti where the top should be.
• 3. End of list.

SPOCK: [using a chisel as a screwdriver] Captain, I must have some platinum. A small block should be sufficient: five or six pounds.

KIRK: Mister Spock, this bag contains some vegetables, baloney, and a hard roll. It will never have any platinum in it.

SPOCK: Very well. In that case, I need some old coffee from the homeless shelter upstairs.

"Close your eyes and--"

"Close my eyes? On the warehouse floor? With all the rampaging robots on it?"

"Oh, right. Well, okay, when you're on a bathroom break--

"What bathroom breaks?

Okay, but if this is even real, it means that the corals have evolved some way of listening to see if a certain neighborhood is a good place to settle. It's not, though. It's dead. If they settle there, they'll die too, right?

I mean, I guess if there's NO good place to settle, then we might as well put them out of their misery. But...

This is the usual "conservative" politicians attempting to rile up their base against the "libruls" by launching an unnecessary offensive along a front in the culture war that doesn't really even exist. The press calls it "feeding them red meat", almost literally in this case.

Here's the headings from the article for his predictions, so you don't have to:

1. Everyone will have a personal AI assistant.
2. We'll take true ownership of our data across all platforms â" including VR.
3. A Big Tech company could get broken up.

Entertainment-industry execs keep trying to boil novelty and human joy down to numbers on a spreadsheet. That's not possible, and that's why they start to suck immediately and fail eventually.

Sometimes, a small company manages to keep the focus where it belongs, on quality, for a time. But sooner or later, some mega-conglomerate makes them an offer they can't refuse, and their beautiful art, along with the culture that made it, gets wadded up and thrown in the 100-megaliter stew vat.

The megacorp, having no understanding of, or interest in, human joy, can only keep up quality through more and more such acquisitions. But, sooner or later, the stew vat splits under its own weight, and that division of the megacorp is crushed under the resulting stew-nami.

Analysts are brought in, and draw whatever wrong conclusions they think their employers want to hear. And then the cycle repeats.