We can't keep automating the shit out of every possible type of job. Not without coming up with a way to give people money to buy things without them working for them, and that's just not in the cards.

As it stands we've had 50 years of automation ripping through the factory job market. Those used to be good paying middle class jobs now they are few and far between or they are borderline slave labor in places like India and China.

As more and more things are automated you have fewer and fewer people able to earn a decent living and fewer and fewer people able to function as consumers. We can't all be plumbers when nobody can afford to hire a plumber.

And it won't fix anything in our cities. You need to Google the phrase induced demand. Self-driving cars don't fix anything. The only actual solution is walkable cities in public transit. Yeah there will be a few less deaths from drunk drivers and whatnot but on the other hand is our economy grinds to a halt in the face of a third industrial revolution it's going to be a moot point because nobody's going to be able to afford to go anywhere or do anything.

Folks haven't really stopped to think about what it's going to mean when 20 or 30% of the jobs we have now don't exist and there's nothing to replace them. Everything in our economy is interconnected and everything depends on everything else.

So if you start breaking all of that down it really doesn't take much to make the whole system collapse. 10 or 15 million become unemployable and the money they were pumping into the economy goes away causing another 10 or 15 million to become unemployed which triggers another batch of layoffs and on and on and on and on and on.

It's the kind of chain reaction that causes a great depression. And remember folks FDR just helped blunt the worst of it, it was world war II the got us out of the Great depression. Tens of millions dead and we didn't have nukes back then...

But I'm sure it'll somehow be fine and that we don't have to do anything or to change anything or think about anything because nothing ever changes since we turned 12 right?

Trump was more like an employee. Musk gave him $250 million to win the election with and in exchange gets to more or less call the shots. Peter thiel and a couple other billionaires do still get a say in matters. Of course none of the 77 million other people who voted for Trump do.

I'm not going to get into the Weeds on whether self-driving cars are better or worse the fact is Musk's self-driving cars are worse than a human driver. Hell his cars are worse than a human driver after a few drinks.

This is obviously him trying to pump his stock up right before he gets that huge pay package and the company collapses. It's around 55 billion and when that hits Tesla goes away.

There's no investor who's dumb enough not to realize that when a single person takes more money than the company has ever made out of it in one go as salary that the company has no future.

At this point Tesla stock is just one big greater fool theory waiting to go off. And with the way 401ks work you're not going to have the option to opt out when the stock is dumped on you and your retirement.

I don't think people realize how corrupt our economy has become or how many protections and institutions have been stripped and undermined. By the time folks figure that out it's going to be way way way too late.

I'm sure we will still blame Hunter biden's laptop and Hillary Clinton's emails though. Because when TV tells us to believe something that's what we do...

Clearly that's just Elon musk's deep concern for the black lives matter movement being programmed into the code /s

Seriously though I hadn't realized they were crashing into emergency vehicles but I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. Fucking Christ I'm so tired of being experimented on.

Sorry musk not mask. That's where you're picking up these talking points. Elon Musk. It was supposed to read I saw Elon Musk but that's what I get for relying on speech to text.

Always funny to watch people spread racist talking points and pretend they aren't right wing extremists. God I hope you're getting paid for this. It would be sad if you were doing it for free. That's some fine sealioning either way. Putin is proud and thanks you for your service.

Anyway anyone know why all these racists are going after Indians now? Again is it just Pakistani intelligence? It really doesn't take a hell of a lot to make Americans go racist against a group of people. A few million dollars worth of social media posts and Pakistan could have us frothing at the mouth. Of course if it threatened to cut off the flow of cheap labor I suspect the ruling class here would do something about that. At that point it just comes down to how clever Pakistan's intelligence agency is.

Or I could be completely off base it's just they're the only ones I could think of who would have a motive. God knows the right wing is only ever bigoted against people they are told to be bigoted against. If TV doesn't tell them to pull their pants down when they poop their underpants would be covered in shit.

So there's definitely something behind the spread of racism focused on India. Maybe it's china? India's taking over China as the main manufacturing hub for us products so maybe the goal is to put a stop to that?

I'm just spitballing here though. I certainly don't have enough intelligence background to figure out who's responsible. But I do have enough critical thinking skills to know somebody is.

Somebody's going to get killed. They just had an incident on a test course where their vehicles ignored a School bus with its lights and stop sign out.

This is Elon trying to pump his stock and the corrupt government of Texas letting him do it at the cost of their own citizens' lives and property.

It's not working anymore. There isn't anyone left alive who doesn't know and understand Tesla is going to collapse soon. It's not if it's when and who is going to get caught holding the bag.

In the old days they dump it on the public pensions but those are mostly gone except for a handful of them in blue states that won't allow you to do that.

That leaves your 401k. Rules have been relaxed and it becomes possible to do that kind of bad stock dumping into individual people's 401ks. People will find out the hard way what a Chesterton fence is over the course of the next 20 years...

Because of music fraud. There's a very real problem right now of fake music being uploaded under real artists names for the purpose of click farming. It's the same as AI generated books that are nothing but incomprehensible trash that pretends to be from real authors to capitalise on their names.

The problem is the bar for checking currently is "is this music yes / no", and beyond that uploads to streaming sites are generally allowed. It's then relies on a manual process to call it out and get it taken down for impersonation, but the shit comes up basically as quickly as it gets taken down.

That's exactly what an AI would say. *suspicious eyes*

Is coming from? I don't believe for a second that it's an organic response to the huge flood of cheap H-1B labor. It's got to be engineered. I'm just curious why.

I saw you on mask reposting these same kind of racist comments and that guy is so far behind the curve his Earth is flat. If he's picking it up it's because somebody is signal boosting it and I'm not sure why. Maybe pakistan?

I've always been surprised Europe doesn't try to counteract the Russian propaganda hitting america.

So yeah you're going to see a lot of stories about it. It is a fundamental change in how we work and what types of work we are allowed to do.

However it's too much for brains that evolved on the Savannah to deal with. Sort of like how nobody fully understands the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire. Just how much power a billionaire wields by comparison...

And also we all know the shit is about to hit the fan so there's going to be a whole hell of a lot of coping going on rather than actually solving the problems. Because there really isn't a solution to these problems. Again the brains that evolved to chase down animals until they were too tired to fight back aren't ready for what's about to hit them.

You're a genius and should be listened to. I mean not really, the reality is you're a fucking moron but since you set the bar for rejecting reality and substituting any old bullshit I'm going to do the same and sing your praises.

The second most commented on story on Slashdot today? I don't understand the point you're making. Are you making up a fake calamity?

When I use my phone I can use it anywhere. That includes a 40 year old piece of shit car without even ABS. When I use a touchscreen in a car you damn well know that car also includes ABS, ESC, and AEB.

Heck if I feel the need to touch the screen in *my* car I'm not concerned about it because the car spends most of it's time doing the driving, and steering, and braking, and doesn't rely on my attention in the slightest.

Yes touchscreens are bad for driver attention, and yet with new cars the accident rate is demonstrably lower. Think about that for a moment.

You don't need bluetooth for this. All cars with touchscreen infotainment systems have voice control as well without any phone connection.

No sorry. Touchscreens were a thing long before Tesla came along. Heck my 2006 Subaru outback had a radio that was completely touchscreen controlled, and that 6 years before Telsa "invented" touchscreens.

Tesla may have been the first company to try and move everything to the touchscreen, but literally all other companies were already heading down that path.