I mean, there will always be stuff to do, so long as there's people around. It's just a matter of like ... used to be, you needed a candlemaker, a shoemaker, a blacksmith, a farmer, etc. There was lots of jobs, just to provide the everyday things everybody needs. That's the part where most of us become redundant, because while we will always need doctors, nurses, teachers, and for that matter chefs and musicians and all of your quality-of-life kinds of professions ... well, not only are the manufacturing/craftsman type gigs just going to be fewer than before automation streamlined things, but even there's just going to be a limit on even those human-focused kinds of professions. We will need doctors and master chefs, but not an endless supply of any of them.
Think of it like how there's still books, magazines, and other traditional writing gigs available, and more on top if you add in all of the online platforms for writers now ... nonetheless, you have people writing fanfics or blogs or whatever by the thousands, for free. I think that's what the majority of your time spent looks like for the majority of the population, in a base-case scenario, in the long run: You have plenty of time to do whatever it is you love, you just don't really have much to do that anybody is going to pay you for.
So the thing is, I feel like we need to get ahead of that prospect mentally, before we get there ... because we've traditionally thought of it as everyone needing to do something to be a productive member of society, in order that they would deserve to have a comfortable home and recreation and all that. We will get to a place though where there is enough food and shelter and even luxury goods to go around, even without everyone working a 40 hour work week. It would be madness to say some people should starve anyway, just because we've run out of useful things for everyone to do.
I think this relates to your articles too, because I don't think everybody would be touchy on the idea that some people aren't cut out for four-year college, if having a four-year degree was not becoming a necessity for earning a living wage. In other words, I don't think it's really about not being realistic about varying degrees of intelligence, so much as its about economic inequality, and how tying achievement to a "good education" is used to perpetuate that.
I mean, you can talk about how access to early education can help close the achievement gap for poor kids, or how vocational or trade schools should be looked at as the best option for some folks ... but you know, you're not going to have the kids of wealthy parents going to trade schools or for that matter enlisting in the military just to afford to pay for school. That's regardless of their natural aptitude, so I feel like that's the part we need to try to address. Nobody's going to care if you say someone isn't cut off for college, if that doesn't mean they and their family will remain at a complete disadvantage.
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The GOP in Texas is terrified. I really really think this will backfire.
Yeah it’s the stupidest thing the corrupt GOP Foxtards speak about politics. Not just a color thing. “ People do not want a hand out, they want to work for what they get.”
Who said that? Ivanka Trump.
They wish to be American royalty, well fuck them all as they offer nothing to society. Treason is a crime punishable by death and I wish someone with half a mi d who remember that fact. Had it my way many fools would meet their maker right about now.
Yeah that is the problem with unpatriotic rich assholes. It’s “ My God Given rights”
So what if you were born rich, got to keep EARNING it.
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Yeah, if your only “gift” is wealth. You should stop being a parasite and cough some of that shit up. They only care for their self interests.
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My god these people are assholes.
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If Biden wins, He'll have advisors to come up with a plan. Expanding the court system actually has validity seeing as the population of the country has increased greatly since the last expansion.
Impeachment for her and for Kavanugh is an option, but doing so might be tricky. No one wants to give future presidents, especially future republican presidents an excuse to abuse the system even more then they are currently doing.
So this isn't a decision that should be rushed into.
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It will be an interesting argument to see what happens when there's enough food, shelter and luxury goods to go around thanks to technological innovation. I don't think we'll have any laws about restrictions for its own sake.
Not everybody is touchy about the idea that some people aren't cut out for four-year college, but enough are. There is the worry that some kids will be lost in the cracks, and how to navigate that.
It is a messy question about why the children of the wealthy are going to still typically go to the four year programs, and some of the answers aren't pretty (intelligence is partially inherited, home environment matters.)
By the way, recent studies show that early education has significant benefits, but doesn't do anything for the achievement gap.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2...h-kids-fund-it
The writer of the book on the need for education reform a marxist so he'll have a different solution to the way of making sure someone can leave the college track without putting their family at a disadvantage. Conservatives would generally argue that there should be opportunities for a comfortable living for people who aren't on the college track, but learn a useful skill.
The American Bar Association gave her a "well qualified" rating.
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That seems to have been amended.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/09/polit...lks/index.html
But I don't know if Democrats want to set that precedent for the next time Republicans have the Senate (assuming Republicans even lose it.) Federalist society interns will comb through comments by Kagan and Sotomayor to find some kind of pretext to argue lies of omission.
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