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In reply to the discussion: Social Justice is the ONLY Path to Economic Prosperity for Workers in This Country [View all]Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)AI is a game changer over and above anything we have seen in the world of work in the past. I work with and study this technology, most people don't have a clue what's coming and how it's going to change their lives for the worse.
The one percent don't *need* you to do their dirty work any more, or soon won't, there will be machines for that, machines that they literally will own. Machines that require no food, no rest, no medical care and above all no paycheck.
Either we figure out how to have the vast wealth flowing from the robot workers more equitably distributed or the ninety nine percent will live a desperate existence at best.
Hillary not only voted but urged others to vote for pouring $3,000,000,000,000 down the rathole of the Iraq war, that is money that could have gone to economic development and yes, social justice, but rather was spent to spread death, misery and destruction both abroad and at home.