We are now programming AI to think critically more than we are teaching our children to do the same.

I welcome our robotic AI overlords.

"So long, and thanks for the sweet ride!"

So, basically, don't do anything.

Those who did not succeed with those challenges probably died.

...which is why they're constantly begging for H1B visas because no U.S. citizen with the skills will tolerate that crap.

I would too, but there's not enough of them; companies not ruthless enough to discriminate aren't ruthless enough to survive against companies who are.

Fuck. That explains tons of recruiters and employers "looking at my profile" but not contacting me.

But don't you need to put those years on your resume? Won't places throw out your resume if specific years worked aren't on them?

The most important thing about the Protestant work ethic is not that Protestants think being busy is a virtue, it's that they use that so-called ethic to put people who don't fit their idea of "busy" down. It's there to ostracize people who don't fit into their mold. If they don't like you, you can't be busy or productive enough - they will find or invent a justification and persecute you with that.

I translated this as: "We give up - every person for themselves!"

Consumers can push all they want - the companies will shove back with effectively infinite force.

Within a reasonable time, I predict that we will be able to print "ghost" anything, at least in macro scales. The people panicking will be the mass-producers of cheap bullshit items, as local small-office fabs (who don't summarily have to pay shipping costs for over-packaged end-user items) and open-source designs will eat their lunch.

The law prohibits the government from enslaving its people.

The law practically enables and encourages powerful private organizations to take up that role instead.

They don't have to be "realistic" - they have the power to force reality to change for them. If that means bashing in their customers' faces with rifle butts they won't think twice, as long as they can loot their pockets afterwards.

FTA:

People started feeling the pain of high-cost labor

"High-cost labor" is corporate-speak for people who want to eat. Heaven forbid they get enough money to feed themselves.

It's called Wall Street.