I'm seeing this at my company. Because users are now faced with new technology around VPNs and Multi-factor authentication they are more easily confused by phishing attempts.
"[Your Company] would like you to answer a survey about how our return-to-work policies. Click [Here] to begin"
"You have been found in violation of [Your Company's] remote work policies. Click [Here] to access training within 24 hours or risk disciplinary action."
"Your computer requires updates for [tech nonsense]. Please click [Here] to receive the updates to continue working remotely."

I'm seeing more of these attempts and more people seem to believe them.

The current unemployment system is means tested. You lose your benefits if you take a job. That is a very effective disincentive to working.

A UBI would be universal, whether you work or not. You could take a job and earn money in addition to the UBI. That is why a UBI would not discourage work the way current programs do.

You should read more about the study. They had three doors. One that would open immediately, one that would open after a delay, and one that would never open. All the doors were transparent so the cuttlefish could see the prize on the other side.

The cuttlefish ONLY waited when the door that would open after a delay held a tastier treat than the one that would open immediately. They ignored the door that never opened. They also ignored door #2 when it didn't have a more valuable prize.

So the training/conditioning was around getting them to recognize the rules of the three doors. Once that was established, THEN they used that training to communicate "If you choose not to eat what's behind door #1 you'll get what's behind door #2". By varying the prizes behind the doors they could tell when the cuttlefish was choosing to wait for the more valuable prize.

After looking at the price of the new consoles AND the trouble of trying to obtain one AND the cost of each game I decided to go in another direction. I paid $300 for a nice couch input combo of lapboard, keyboard, mouse, and game controller for my PC.

Now I can play any PC game I want from the comfort of my couch.

There are fundamentals that don't change with a four year frequency. After working in tech at various levels for 25 years myself I have a better grasp of the big picture than younger techs.

At this point I don't need to know the technical details of every system that I run in my company. I need to know their features and weaknesses. I need specialists who can dig in to the details and keep them running. As for myself, I work on the strategic plan for multiple systems instead of being an expert at any one thing.

I still have to keep learning, true, but it's more conferences and concepts and less technical manuals and home lab experiments.

Neither me nor my guests should have to present photo IDs to enter my home.

The target demographic isn't always too poor to afford the products advertised. When you're poor you get money in small windfalls and you spend it quickly before it disappears on its own.

Payday comes around, or tax refund time, or welfare check time - whatever it is - and the advertisers want to make sure their product is right at the top of the minds of people who are yearning for something to make them happy. Many will gladly splurge on expensive sneakers or as-seen-on-TV gadgets to try to temporarily forget about normal life.

Maybe they can't pay for a monthly cell phone bill but they can certainly buy stuff.

You're neglecting compliance. Having worked at a pharma company I saw first hand huge amounts of resources dedicated to running around meeting the whim of every country's various regulatory agencies. Overhead is one of, if not the largest, cost involved.

Many jobs have no meaningful metric for measuring accomplishments. You can't measure "kept data center well maintained" or "manned customer support line, addressing client issues" without considering hours spent on the task. Most of IT operations is based on avoiding any interruption to the rest of the workforce. The best system admins are practically invisible.

609,052 / 8300 workers = 73 patents to review per worker per year. If each patent takes 3 days to review then that is 260 - 219 = 41 days for sick time, vacation, and any patents that take longer than 3 days. Not much slack available there - especially if their math skills are as bad as yours.

Suppose someone has a heart attack with these technologies enabled. The car will keep driving down the interstate until it runs out of gas. They'll find a dead body in a car driving three states away from where the driver used to live.

The easy way around this is to treat a medical records system like an accounting system. You can't delete any record you can only add corrections. Anyone reading the record would be able to see the "erroneous" entries as well as the justification for correcting them.

I used to work for a pharma supporting a system that does exactly this. All pharmas have a system like this mandated by law. It's called adverse event tracking. You tell your doctor "I had effect D while taking drugs X, Y, and Z". The doctor reports this to the pharmas that make X, Y, and Z and it is all tracked for potential causality. The difficulties arise if there are too few people who have that side effect while taking that combination of medicine. If the occurrence is too rare there isn't enough statistical data to show causality. That's why all the commercials say "side effects may include ..." because some portion of patients on the medicine had those symptoms and causality may not be determined.

Pinky, are you thinking what I'm thinking? Of course you are.

They're not isolates supplies wise. The idea is that the parent company will send more supplies in future trips. The colonists produce data about Mars that is valuable and in return they get support from interested parties on Earth. Of course, the mere survival of the colonists is valuable and worthy of a certain amount of supplies, too.