Your quote implies white people can't be poor. I got news for you. In absolute numbers, there are more poor white folks then any other single demographic. Absolute, not per capita. Go look at a couple of my recent posts for some links and numbers that support this.

Being poor is not a race issue.

The $1700 was the last number which is about $32 a week. Yawn.

It's been said already but it's very obviously that it's not what you know but who you know. People from money have parents that know people that have money. This all translates to better opportunities.

Oh bullshit. We're 5th in spending per student in the world https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fduckduckgo.com%2F%3Ft%3Dffab...

We get shitty results but it's not a lack of spending that's creating this problem. Maybe fewer dollars going to the gym and administration and more going towards classrooms and teachers. And a lot less going to "tech" solutions where absolutely none are needed.

You picked a really lousy argument example when talking about space. SpaceX is perhaps the cheapest option the world has for getting payloads into space and it's a private company in the United States. No doubt SpaceX has taken advantage of government contracts despite you saying we've cut science spending.

Of course the two technologies you just mentioned also have the potential to wipe out millions of jobs. I can't really think of a more disruptive technology myself. Even when the bubble pops, who ever survives will be in a wonderful position to make a lot of money and change a lot of society, for better or worse.

I'm not an Apple fan and I've pretty much avoided their ecosystem. I'm not a fan of walled gardens but I can recognize why some people will be fine with the arrangement.

With that said, Apple builds the handset, the OS and the store. It's all their proprietary stuff, obviously sitting on top of BSD (still legal). Given they have no monopoly on cellphones, I don't really see why they can't set their market place fee to what they want. If a developer doesn't want to pay the price, they can go make an app for someone else. Apple doesn't owe anyone access to their ecosystem.

It's not like you must have an Iphone to get work done. Android is a huge ecosystem with the same stuff.

Someone feel free to break it down to me why Apple can't set it's own price policies.

Maybe the freedom fighters would leave us alone if we weren't mucking around in their politics, which dates back well to the 60s. I'm sure you know we trained OBL to fight the Russians when they were busy trying to take Afghanistan. Then, when we decided to invade Afghanistan, OBL was once again fighting foreign armies invading his country.

It's all perspective.

9/11 could of just as well be an inside job used to con the America public and it's politicians into letting Iraq even happen. We've been busy trying to accomplish regime change throughout the middle east for the past 70 years. I'm sure lots of people would prefer we stay out of their country and mind our own business. Would we tolerate an armed foreign nation coming into the United States? Absolutely not.

Depends on the jobs in question.

What if you are part of a team of creatives working for an advertising firm and that firm now rolls out AI that does about half your job? Say your team is 10 people and most of them all do the exact same stuff. If AI can accomplish half the job, then I could either embrace AI as a tool to increase productivity and grow the company (assuming we can find more clients) or you embrace AI as a tool and layoff half the department letting the other 5 produce the same amount of work but now with half the payroll needed.

Both are plausible outcomes. AI doesn't have to be perfect to cause a drop off in total employment numbers. It can be "good enough" that the remaining humans can tidy up the output.

I know I'd hate to be a graphical artist these days given how AI is quite literally "good enough" at generating commercials. This is especially true in USA where advertisers get to play fast and loose with the truth of their products via marketing but are never held accountable.

If it was reasonable I presume companies wouldn't be complaining because it would be as cheap as or cheaper than setting up their own payment system.

Not necessarily even that. Some friends tried to break into the movie business in London but pretty much everywhere required them to work for months as unpaid interns to have a chance of a paid job. Middle-class kids living with their parents could afford to do that, but poor kids couldn't afford to live in London that long without an income, and probably not even on the income they'd get from their first paid job if they held out that long.

It's another way that poor kids are kept out of certain lines of work.

China is a serious country. The West is (mostly) not.

The economics is largely irrelevant. China could be in just as bad a state as the West if they put people in universities based on sex or skin colour rather than merit, taught them that people can change sex just by saying so, and continually told them that China was evil and Chinese people should just disappear and be replaced by Indians and Africans.

> in many parts of the country schools are literally falling apart while good teachers leave the profession because they cannot afford to live on a teaching salary

Meanwhile, if you look at education outcomes against spending over the last few decades, outcomes in the US have become worse and worse as spending has risen.

It's quite amusing that some troll follows me around modding down any comments where I suggest humans should cooperate with one another. They are literally proving my point by moving things backwards with their solitary cowardice.

Did you even RTFA?

"Our analysis takes advantage of administrative data from a large, urban, public college system "

The analysts are from Columbia, a private Ivy League school. Not the students. Since they're NYC based, the students they were studying were almost certainly from the public City University of New York system. Not at all hard to get into, and no need for "nepo baby" admissions.

People get their AI to listen to the podcast and summarize it for them.

There was a movie called Kill the Irishman, starring the late great Ray Stevenson, that had a similar plot point: Danny Greene borrows money from the Mob to start a restaurant. The courier tasked with delivering the cash decides to take it and buy heroin with it, re-sell it at a profit, and keep the difference for himself. Except the sellers are Feds in a honeypot scheme. The money is gone, the Mob demands Greene pay them back, he refuses, so the order goes out to "kill the Irishman".