"Ourselves" = corporations, individuals, private institutions, the Federal Reserve, state and local governments, etc.
Your points are valid but the "Innovating to zero" lecture proves that the Neo-Malthusians have not given up, and they planned to use the C o v i d 1 9 pandemic to enforce the basic idea of "Innovating to zero."The neo-Malthusians were discredited a long time ago. All of their doom-and-gloom predictions came to nought.
In fact, there was a famous bet between a neo-Malthusian and an economist in 1980. The neo-Malthusian lost the bet, bigly.
Simon–Ehrlich wager - Wikipedia
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What any of this has to do with the federal debt is beyond me, but everyone who has seen my posts on this board knows the federal debt is my single biggest issue.
Sooner or later, our debtors are going to doubt our ability to pay them back, and they are going to demand higher interest rates on any new debt.
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But if the United States is about to have a shift of manufacturing away from China and back to the USA, and if USA workers will become more productive due to the use of the most up to date technology then with an America that is more productive then the value of the USA dollar is stable, because the USA dollar is backed up by the productivity of USA workers.The neo-Malthusians were discredited a long time ago. All of their doom-and-gloom predictions came to nought.
In fact, there was a famous bet between a neo-Malthusian and an economist in 1980. The neo-Malthusian lost the bet, bigly.
Simon–Ehrlich wager - Wikipedia
What any of this has to do with the federal debt is beyond me, but everyone who has seen my posts on this board knows the federal debt is my single biggest issue.
Sooner or later, our debtors are going to doubt our ability to pay them back, and they are going to demand higher interest rates on any new debt.
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"Innovating to zero" is about reducing pollution to zero. It is not about running out of resources.
But the extreme political left attempted to pretty much shut down the economy of the USA and Canada during C o v i d 19. Carbon dioxide is not really a pollutant. Every living thing on this earth depends on atmospheric CO2.
Carbon Dioxide Fertilization Greening Earth, Study Finds
Karl B. Hille
APR 26, 2016
From a quarter to half of Earth’s vegetated lands has shown significant greening over the last 35 years largely due to rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change on April 25.
An international team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries led the effort, which involved using satellite data from NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer instruments to help determine the leaf area index, or amount of leaf cover, over the planet’s vegetated regions. The greening represents an increase in leaves on plants and trees equivalent in area to two times the continental United States.
Carbon Dioxide Fertilization Greening Earth, Study Finds - NASA
From a quarter to half of Earth’s vegetated lands has shown significant greening over the last 35 years largely due to rising levels of atmospheric carbonwww.nasa.gov
More than 80 percent of manufacturing jobs which have disappeared were automated out of existence. They are never coming back.
I've heard this incredibly ignorant statement before.
Don't you concern yourself with dates? What they meant was lack of funding for national security! You don't know what that means do you?
Or, we look like the USA in 1930.
But the understanding of certain events in our history that prove that there is something that can be done about this problem is important.
And it is pretty obvious that our children and grandchildren will see more and more of this trend over the coming decades..
Here's an American auto factory from the 1970s. Look how many workers:
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Here's an American auto factory today. See if you can find the humans:
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This is an exceptionally interesting post on this topic.More than 80 percent of manufacturing jobs which have disappeared were automated out of existence. They are never coming back.
Anyone who tells you they are going to bring manufacturing jobs back is a lying demagogue.
In fact, more and more manufacturing jobs are going to become extinct here. In China, there are entire factories who have no humans working in them. They are entirely automated. They don't even have any lighting turned on because machines don't need lights.
Our manufacturers are behind the curve but they are going to catch up.
The US makes more goods than ever before. Did you know that? To listen to your lying demagogues, you'd think we make less.
As I have explained many times before, at the time our Constitution was ratified 98 percent of Americans were in the agriculture sector and lived at a barely subsistence level.
Today, less than two percent are, and we are feeding the entire world.
What would you make of some asshole who promised to "bring back all those lost farming jobs"?
Right?
Same with mining, which was the next number one economic sector. It has also experienced a dramatic plunge in jobs, despite mining more material than ever. Trump lied out of his ass that he was going to bring those jobs back.
Mining is still making a **** ton of money, but only for a few hands.
Then manufacturing became the number one economic sector. And now it is also making more stuff with less people.
The next big economic sector is entertainment and services. That's where the jobs of the future are.
Back to manufacturing, have you ever heard of the smile curve of manufacturing revenue?
There's a reason why American corporations focus on R&D, branding, marketing, sales, and service. Because that's where the money is.
There's no money in making the product. We let someone else, or robots, do that.
Yes, which is why I just said the jobs future is in the services and entertainment sector.
Thank you.
Jobs which AI won't eliminate any time soon:
Your link also provides some interesting history from 1750:
