Britannica has been around for over two hundred years. I sold a LOT of sets i my day. Unfortunately, there are huge numbers of people who can't or don't read. In my old age, I find myself tutoring/coaching people on how to think and how to study. This last year, I have been coaching 4 people, WITH MULTIPLE DEGREES, who read only about 150 words-per-minute and can't remember what they read. (In my generation , boomer, the average reading speed was 200-250 wpm w/70% comprehension.) A report by abtaba (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abtaba.com%2Fblog%2F59-reading-statistics) says that 42% of college graduates never read a book after college. Judging from what I see in this forum, I suspect that a lot of them haunt /.

This is a waste of resources! If a person reading 250 wpm reads for an hour a day they could easily read a 100,000 word book each week. If they did that every week that would be over 50 books in a year. If only half those books were on a subject they were interested in, they would have acquired the knowledge/book requirement for a BA/BS degree about every two years. (Assuming they learned how to think somewhere along the way.)

However, letting AI set the standards for learning come with compliance, not thinking. Encyclopaedia Britannica is a proper name. (Notice how I spelled it EncyclopAEdia?) However much a writer tries to include the ligature "ash" (ae) in his text, Ignorant spell-checker, ignorant editors, and ignorant AI will insist on changing it to a simple "e".

Britannica jumped the gun: AI is not ready to improve on an encyclopedia designed to accumulate facts for reader's consumption.

It is true that the rich got richer. The question is: "Did they get richer by creating more wealth for others and shaving a portion for themselves? or did they get richer by plundering the resources of other people?"

It is not like the very, very rich keep their money in a huge money vault like Scrooge McDuck. You can only do two things with money: Either spend it or invest it. If you spend it, you are creating jobs and making things better for the people who make those products and services you spend money on, whether it is the lower-paid worker who has a job or the higher paid executive and investor that puts the process together. If you invest it, you are providing the resources that enable others to produce goods and services, which provides jobs and income for other people to who can circulate the money through the economy by buying the goods and services they need or want. Being rich does not automatically make you guilty of exploitation, and stealing someone's wealth by government intervention of force should be reserved for those who are guilty of exploitation or theft.

So some smarty is going to say, "Well, what if the person DID keep it in a vault instead of spending it? What if he kept it under his mattress? What if he burned it? From an Economic point of view, those are simply bad investments....

Is this the same guy that proved time travel was possible by generating a negative energy density gravitational lens using any common coffee maker?

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They could also be shoring up investments in office properties they own, but relocating enough people to fill up the offices they own vs remote ones they rent.

Then my submission should have been rejected, the content associated with my username shouldn't have been changed.

I am the submission author.

This is not what I submitted.

Slashdot changed the content and formatting of my submission.

The content changes are significant

Here is a screenshot of my version of the submission.

In my opinion the content Slashdot chose over mine significantly changes the message(s).

I would rather have had the suggestion rejected than have something else substituted in under my username.

Happy Sunday.

I've owned very cars. I drive them until the wheels fall off. I've found an FM radio, CD player, and keeping my eyes on the road to be more than enough.

Like a person trapped in a cycle of reincarnation this story has been reincarnated on Slashdot for decades.

Queue all of the predictable comments about how this story isn't accurate, add in some bitching about some common languages, and heated defenses on how that isn't fair.

It isn't just corporate greed.

The livestock industry contributes more to the greenshouse effect than transportation.

Post an article about that, you will get hostile replies, snark, and jokes.

The hottest day reports nobody likes to get are about corporate greed AND the personal failures of many people to make even small adjustments to the way they live.

Queue the real life copies of the comic book store owner from the Simpsons to lecture us why he is top of the food chain, and smugly should not even be told that his habits might be a problem.

Squabbles.io is a new site similar to Reddit. Anonymous posting, many discussion boards for many subjects, simple clean U.I., and a very friendly subculture.

Someone set up an /s/MaleFasionAdvice there if anyone is interested.

There's a difference between a Trump follower and a conservative.

There are not enough moderate Republicans to make such a distinction meaningful.

Zero disrespect or insult meant.

Is China still called the People's Republic of China (PRC)?

They should change their name. You can't have billionaire's and communism in the same country without looking like bullshit artists.

I'm glad I'm not a rube.

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The Reddit Know-It-Alls Were Wrong - Again!

I remember when this issue first came up in /r/News on Reddit the know-it-alls almost chanted in unison that doing this would be the death for Netflix.

It actually made Netflix money and solved some of their financial problems.