Yep, espicially the ones that use directed mirrors to heat a solar tower.I actually heard that Solar farms in the Mojave desert can fry birds if they fly to close .
Yep, espicially the ones that use directed mirrors to heat a solar tower.I actually heard that Solar farms in the Mojave desert can fry birds if they fly to close .
The problem is it's an unreliable source of energy, so you need a traditional power plant around anyways to pick up the slack.
I actually heard that Solar farms in the Mojave desert can fry birds if they fly to close .
Automation is here, do I think it will lead to mass unemployment, no. Just like happened every other time there was a technological revolution new careers will emerge to absorb the work.Fair. Thoughts on Automation and Labor?
Automation is here, do I think it will lead to mass unemployment, no. Just like happened every other time there was a technological revolution new careers will emerge to absorb the work.
Its looks like Immigration is shut down in the US and the Europeans are regaining their balls.
The reindustrialization of America is also accelerating.
All it took was a virus to get people to reconsider instead of someone saying it on live tv.
I think they may have already been considering it before
Depending on how strong paranoia lasts, they may not want to allow illegal migrants in for a few more years, by then people’s views may change even more
Unfortunately, I think an ACTUAL Far Right could rise from the Far Left
I think to a degree they made the mistake of buying their own statements about their rise being inevitable, they got cocky.Indeed. We in the US had long since been getting our borders under control...finally. Europe was coming around and starting to do the same. This just rapidly accelerated it.
Another side effect is that this will help speed along the rapid re industrialization of the United States. As Trump made it clear we will no longer depend on China for pharmaceuticals. I mean, them threatening us like that was just a really, really stupid thing to do.
I think to a degree they made the mistake of buying their own statements about their rise being inevitable, they got cocky.
That would not surprise me. Especially with the Left here in the States actively sucking them off. And that's about the kindest thing I can say on the subject.
I think to a degree they made the mistake of buying their own statements about their rise being inevitable, they got cocky.
The problem is the US can also break their economy permanently, scapegoats are supposed to be weak, it would have been smarter to blame someone who can’t hurt them, someone like the uyghurs or Falun Gong, a weak group they already persecute.It's actually more that they are operating under a different framework than those in the US are operating under.
China isn't doing this because it believes it or because it thinks anyone else will or because it doesn't like the US; China is doing it for domestic consumption.
COVID-19 has started a global recession (which will very likely become a depression in short order). Totally ignoring the six plus weeks that China has been shutdown for, demand for Chinese goods is essentially non existent and will continue to be non-existent for months (as the US and Europe are on lockdown). China without external markets to buy its goods is China with mass urban unemployment.
China and Europe (Italy especially) are very likely to see their economic problems come home to roost as a consequence of COVID; and the US (even if it was inclined to help) is going to be distracted by its own domestic situation and the Presidential election.
That was all going to happen regardless of who China blamed or what they said. So what China is doing is blaming the US and trying to twist the domestic narrative to make the upcoming crash in China the fault of the US and not the CCP. If the CCP admits that they bungled the initial virus response then the CCP will be the ones blamed for mass unemployment, starvation, and economic collapse in China.
If, on the other hand, they can convince the people that the US caused the virus then it was an attack by an external enemy and less the CCP's fault. If China can also engage the US enough to take some economic swipes at China then all the better because the Party can spin them, for domestic consumption, as being what caused the collapse of the Chinese economy.
All of this is China doing frantic, last minute, disaster prep work for what it expects to face in three to six months.
The problem is the US can also break their economy permanently, scapegoats are supposed to be weak, it would have been smarter to blame someone who can’t hurt them, someone like the uyghurs or Falun Gong, a weak group they already persecute.
Thinking the country that is the heart of the world financial system, and has the only true blue water navy is weak is something worthy of a Darwin Award.I’m pretty sure the PRC view the USA as weak, but that maybe because when they think of the USA they’re thinking of the Democrats and SJW types who bow down to them
You're not alone is that assumption, but it is an assumption; one I don't share. We are looking at levels of automation previously considered impossible being implemented within out lifetimes, and it is a massive leap in logic to assume that there will be enough new jobs created to compensate for those lost. This isn't without precedent, mind you; this has happened before, just not to humans:Automation is here, do I think it will lead to mass unemployment, no. Just like happened every other time there was a technological revolution new careers will emerge to absorb the work.
CGP Grey said:Luddite Horses
Imagine a pair of horses in the early 1900s talking about technology. One worries all these new mechanical muscles will make horses unnecessary.
The other reminds him that everything so far has made their lives easier -- remember all that farm work? Remember running coast-to-coast delivering mail? Remember riding into battle? All terrible. These city jobs are pretty cushy -- and with so many humans in the cities there are more jobs for horses than ever.
Even if this car thingy takes off you might say, there will be new jobs for horses we can't imagine.
But you, dear viewer, from beyond 2000 know what happened -- there are still working horses, but nothing like before. The horse population peaked in 1915 -- from that point on it was nothing but down.
There isn’t a rule of economics that says better technology makes more, better jobs for horses. It sounds shockingly dumb to even say that out loud, but swap horses for humans and suddenly people think it sounds about right.
As mechanical muscles pushed horses out of the economy, mechanical minds will do the same to humans. Not immediately, not everywhere, but in large enough numbers and soon enough that it's going to be a huge problem if we are not prepared. And we are not prepared.
You, like the second horse, may look at the state of technology now and think it can’t possibly replace your job. But technology gets better, cheaper, and faster at a rate biology can’t match.
Commie numbers duke, cant trust them. Even if everyone else came out without a scratch, and everyone panicked for nothing, I dont believe for one second China doesn't have it worst.Covid-19 may be declining in China(I extremely doubt that), But party is just getting started everywhere else.
The problem is the US can also break their economy permanently, scapegoats are supposed to be weak, it would have been smarter to blame someone who can’t hurt them, someone like the uyghurs or Falun Gong, a weak group they already persecute.