Sure they can, they just don’t want to.

Mine did too, but it was to circumvent a requirement to get CEO approval for purchases over x. We weren’t a multinational, ut would custom order laptops with no hard drive and hard drives separately so we weren’t below the limit and then put the machines together.

For those that want to do that a Mac is not the machine for them.

When you have 7-8 million people living in a place where 95 percent can't afford to live near their job that doesn't pay very much, you expect EVERYONE to be friendly? The area in and around "the city" has a lot of friendly people who are getting knocked down continually, but once you get beyond the caution that everyone needs to have in a city, people really are friendly. The key is that there are a lot of people who would steal from others because they don't make enough money from their job to live without working one or two OTHER jobs as well. Those who are paid decently are friendly, but with all of the con artists(there's a reason for the dislike of Trump by those who live in New York), people still need to be very cautious with anyone they don't already know.

Corporate ownership of single family units is the reason there is any "shortage". The cost of real estate would drop like a rock if you made it illegal for corporations to own single family homes. You see the companies that are looking to buy houses so they can "flip them", all that does is raise the price for homes so the corporation can make a profit. Make it so no person can own more than three homes as well, and yea, even the wealthy couldn't manipulate the price of housing as well.

The NEED to do this or that just to survive is what happens when you have a shortage in SOCIETY of things. When you have robots making EVERYTHING, and power is free(because it costs nothing for solar/wind/tidal power other than the devices themselves, which have no cost because the cost would be "how much power is needed", and generating power and repairing power generators are just a part of the expense of effectively free power.

The problem is that even now, we have too many people who would do NOTHING except for watching sports, but even then, when food and everything else is free, those do-nothings wouldn't matter either. Things only break down when the base materials aren't available to make the stuff people want.

Decency has no place in the Trump administration, and I expect Republicans won't have a decent candidate for decades after Trump is removed from office.

If so many Republicans are not aligned with Trump, why do they act like a bunch of pussies when Trump tells them to do ANYTHING, even if it is against the US Constitution? The Republican Party is now the party of Trump, and if he demands they give him oral sex, they do it for however long it takes for Trump to be satisfied.

Trump being the one who is against any sort of cooperation with other countries is a good reason why the entire world has turned away from the USA. We have a government that, for the past four decades, has been so held back by people giving money to the wealthy while being against any sort of research and development, everything is falling apart.

We can make America great again by throwing Trump and his entire administration in prison for war crimes.

When "The Right" is dominated by xenophobic people who can't handle that we have a lot of non-white non-Christians around, you see a bunch of them lose their minds and start to shoot people randomly. They blame everyone besides themselves for their own failures, because they have been told how great the USA and "white people" are, and reality contradicts what their parents taught them.

We have too many people who look down on the idea of getting a better education while they lose their jobs to automation and technology. So, anything that requires an education that THEY can not provide to their kids is considered bad. On the flip side, China, India, and pretty much the rest of the world keep pushing for better education for EVERYONE.

People don't seem to know their history when it comes to the online world. The ARPAnet was the foundation for what became the Internet, but in the private sector, we had things called a BBS, Bulletin Board System, where people would dial into a system run by someone else, and you could read and send messages to other users, and also upload or download things. Most of those had a single phone line, some two or three lines, but that was the way things were back in the 1980s.

There were also the "Online Services". CompuServe was the one primarily aimed at business use, you had GEnie, Prodigy, and AOL. None of these were connected to the Internet, they were just their own service in the days of dial-up. In time, being able to send/receive e-mail from the Internet was added, again, AOL was not ON the Internet, but it finally had the ability to send/receive Internet e-mail. Eventually, AOL did connect to the Internet, but AOL was never a pioneer in the field. Being an Internet pioneer would go to companies like Netcom, which was one of the first national Internet service providers back in the 1990s, where the offering really was for people to dial up to be able to get on the Internet.

As the economy goes downhill, many people will question if the high cost of a college education is worth it, and that is one of the key reasons for this trend. We are also seeing the results of outsourcing so much to other countries, there is a lack of the entry level jobs that new graduates would normally try to get. So, having 3-5 years of experience is required, but there are few entry level jobs available to let people get that 3-5 years or experience. What is a person to do?

The feeling that it isn't what you know, it is who you know that really matters is another big problem, because if you don't come from the "right family", you won't have those connections needed to get a good job. Then, we also have the threat of AI, where the entry level jobs may get handled by AI, and again, where do people get the job experience needed to avoid AI being a threat to the jobs you are qualified for?

So, take out $100,000 worth of loans to go to college for four years to get a degree...long term the degree MAY pay off, but then again, if it doesn't pay off with a decently paying job, that loan will end up costing $300,000 or more in the long term due to interest on the student loans.

The drive through for Taco Bell, when it works, is better than many employees they have at getting my orders correct. Even ChatGPT at least understands the English language better than 75 percent of the customer service people I have dealt with over the past 10 years.

That isn't really correct. AI has the POTENTIAL to do a lot for businesses, but unlike the PC or Internet, isn't inexpensive to implement or to turn into a positive thing for a business(that isn't based on selling AI based products/services). The idea that we can eliminate the annoying outsourced customer service with AI that can do the same job won't even save money when companies need to pay a lot to get that set up, but AI based customer service may be easier to understand for many people, and might even have more of a clue than the outsourced customer service that so many companies currently offer.

I don't expect AI to replace much in the next 15 years. We have seen what automation looks like where self checkout is everywhere, and that has resulted in more loss of jobs than AI has so far.