I'll go a step further. American billionaires who tout day in day out to replace workers with AI fearing they're the ones to be replaced next by the Chinese.

Just a note: unemployment rate and recession are not the same thing, even if they are many many times related.

I wonder if the only way to solve the US tipping problem would be to all (or ate least a huge amount) of customers to stop tipping completely. Maybe laws banning tips need to be passed.

Without tips, I guess people would have to look for other jobs and hence restaurants and delivery services would have to raise wages to compensate for it.

I order food delivery on a one-time-per-week basis. Usually when I do it, I order and then totally dismiss the app, just waiting the food to arrive. I don't open the app again until next order. So, in my case, any asking for tips after the service would just be completely ignored.

Oh, but it's coming! There are right now a few companies recruiting executives in order to train AI for C-level work. Only the very top of the cream will be safe.

We're witnessing the greatest human invention that will drive a bunch of people insanely, otherworldly rich... Or the deepest hole that will drag entire populations down the drain.

Most of the world (and especially the US) is already under huge debt. At this point, this looks like going all in on Hail Mary.

You, sir, are the very example of what I was talking about.

So many false premises, so much bitterness about "change". It's ok to any person to feel anxious about changing. As an old man I surely have my anxieties, too.

But that shouldn't be the driving motivation for a country. It certainly wasn't for the rest of US history.

The US could be leading the way in this immensely important change. But I see many of you (my US counterparts in this forum) actively fighting against it and then being frightened (and even belligerent) about China taking your spot.

I wasn't talking about how much money is divided, but how the rate of every artist is counted. But my idea, as I myself admitted is a bit simplistic. I'm sure there's much more to be adjusted than simply that.

I get people's more immediate concerns. But that is exactly why the country (through politicians, companies and governments) should encourage and invest on innovation that lead to better outcomes, not demonize and setting it back.

This reminds of the famous Ford quote: “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”

As I said, what most Americans seems to be actively fighting against it right now, is exactly what could drive them towards several more decades of global leadership and even more of that much-valued freedom. the US definitely have the capacity to be the leader in green energy and EV production. Instead, they're giving it away to China and then crying it foul.

What if - and I know this is a simplistic idea - but what if only the streams from paying subscribers counted? I believe it would greatly discourage this type of fraud.

Having lived the last 50+ years knowing the US as the leading country in innovation and technological advancement, it truly astounds me how the situation seems to have completely reversed now.

The shift to clean energy is not only a matter of environmental preservation but also of economic progress. Americans seem to be voluntarily and stubbornly choosing to stay out of this movement.

What this means is an increasing divide between the US market and the rest of the world, significantly reducing the space for American industries and the country's influence on global trade.

And, paradoxically, this only worsens the US position in relation to China, the very scenario that the same people who reject clean energy fear so much.

The actual statement in the article is that the decline cause is the end of the tax credit, not the surge.

What is obvious is that the surge in sales in the last couple of months makes the drop seems even more significant.

Anyway, even specialists are saying that people - knowing the credits would end - anticipated buying an EV, this also helped to cause a drop in sales in October. Which makes sense.

https://insideevs.com/news/777...

I grew up exposed to many new technologies and made my entire career about it.

But I'm no luddite and (I like to think) I'm a reasonable person and always tried to keep my home to a sensible level of technology. I definitely don't need to everything, from room temperature, to curtains opening/closing, to coffee making being automated and I resist to buying every new shining thing that shows up anytime.

I think that most of the anxiety that people report nowadays stems not from the technology itself, but from the FOMO and consumerism, specially triggered by current social media. So these would be the real harmful elephants in the room to be addressed. We should learn how to be comfortable with ourselves and responsible with technology, instead of completely dependent on it.

Right and valuable for him, of course.

This example has absolutely nothing to do with legal, medical or scientific advice. Even less to making any of these on mass media.

Now you're just being snob. Ok, then... You can't give any of these being unlicensed. There you go.