Although worker productivity has steadily increased, I don't see anyone getting good pay or even a living wage for a few hours of work per week. AI, robotics, and technology is not giving us a life of leisure. This fantasy will only happen if legislation is passed for a basic income by taxing the rich. Is that happening? Are we anywhere near that? If anything, we're going in the opposite direction. We will have the top 1% having all the wealth, and everyone else will be poor. There might be a small number in the middle to quell the masses, and at least give a glimmer of hope that you just might make it. Quite the dystopian future we are headed towards.

I guess these billionaires can find some use for all of those unemployed humans as batteries for their machines.

when you grind the gears? Does it kill the engine when you shift at the wrong time? Roll backward on a hill if you don't do it, right? It needs to be realistic.

So you're saying I have a chance?

I walk to work at the university, about a mile depending on the building I need to go to that day. I so want an EV, but it's hard to justify when my paid off ICEV is mostly used to go grocery shopping. I don't need nor want an expensive luxury EV, but instead an affordable used compact EV. Yes, charging is a huge factor in adoption of EVs, but so is cost at point of sale.

Because when you hit the submit button it prints out a paper copy directly to you which you can then look over and ensure it is accurate. There is then a lock box overseen by a poll worker that you feed your paper copy into before you leave. You have both electronic voting and paper back up and everything should match 100% in a recount. Can your votes be identified? I don't know that one. I don't know if there is any other information or numbering. I do know you can't vote twice. Our state requires picture ID (voter ID card is not enough) and they have a printed listing of all registered voters in the county. When you check in they compare your ID, name, address, etc. to the voter roll and they check off that you are voting. You have to also sign your name in their log book before they let you go to the machines. You can't go back later that day and vote again, and no one with your ID could try and vote for you. Electronic voting is also optional. You can choose between printed ballot and electronic ballet. I believe the printed ballot still gets scanned in when you are done (fill in the bubbles), so one way or another it is a digital and a paper copy. The question is really how you want to fill out your vote. I think people with disabilities or physical limitations actually have an easier time with the touch screen instead of trying to fill in that little bubble on paper.

And we do the opposite. Vote electronically (which makes voting and tallying fast) and then it prints out a paper copy that can later be used as a backup or recount if needed. I feel confident in this system.

"You have to remember that you can get breakfast, lunch, and dinner at work at many places, for free..." Wow, where is that? We get nothing. Well, there is a water fountain down the hall.

The OS means nothing to me. It's just a way to launch my web browser. Literally 99.9% of what I do today is web sites and web services. I have two or three other programs that I have installed that I use on occasion, but that's it. Just stop with the new versions of Windows and maintain the security updates.

...and the beatings will continue until morale improves.

Get to work on that Dyson Sphere. That should be enough.

it would be a shame if anything were to happen to it.

They really should have headed towards the sun and used a slingshot maneuver to pick up speed and then travel back in time before the accident so that they could prevent it from happening. Hijinks ensue. And then make some whale recordings while they were at it.

Exactly. If people can't make it on a 40-hour/week job, they still won't make it on a 32-hour/week job. You think the 1% are going to just share the wealth and pay employees more while they work less? Nope, it will continue with the divide between the rich and poor growing and the middle class shrinking. People will still be working just as many hours, but split between multiple jobs. Fixing the tax structure and implementing a universal basic income are really the only things that will make any real difference.

Just like in Star Trek, Kirk would talk advanced AI to death by giving it a circular logic loop. Now we'll give ChatGPT the loop of writing and evaluating itself until it can't take it anymore and quits.