Yeah, I don't feel well at all with the idea of letting newborns who may not even started suckling use social media. It's a bit too soon.

Me.

Thank you for your answer. Here, page 57-58, it mentions people throwing their waste onto the street at night in Ancient Rome. There's even legal advice from the time relating to being hit by waste.

Haha that failed swatiska!

Weren't there cities where people just threw waste from their window onto the street below?

I say it's wrong and I'll try to stop you.

Now I know what my pseudonym will be if I'm in a black metal band.

I understand if you do, but I hope you won't. I like this place despite its flaws and I hope it won't turn into a far right community.

I don't understand how you can do this to your own daughter.

If anything, a father should be supporting his daughter through divorce.

This is a common question in economics.

It's called technological unemploymemt and it's a type of structural unemployment.

Economists generally believe that this is temporary. Workers will take new jobs that are now available or learn new skills to do so.

An example is how most of the population were farmers, before the agricultural revolution ans the industrial revolution. Efficiency improvements to agriculture happened, and now there's like only about 1% of the population in agriculture. Yet, most people are not unemployed.

There was also a time in England when a large part of the population were coal miners. Same story.

Each economic and technological improvement expands the economy, which creates new jobs.

There's been an argument by some, Ray Kurzweil if I remember correctly, but others as well, that we will eventually reach a point where humans are obsolete. There was a time when we used horses as the main mode of land transportation. Now, this is very marginal, and we use horses for a few other things, but really there's not that much use for them. Not as much as before. The same might happen to humans. Machines might become better than humans, for everything.

Another problem that might be happening is that the rate of technological change might be too fast for society to adapt, leaving us with an ever larger structural unemployment.

One of the solution that has been suggested is providing a basic income to everyone, so that losing your job isn't as much of a big problem, and would leave you time to find another job or learn a new skill to do so.

Didn't even think about this. I thought of how crushingly boring and annoying it must have been to have been unable to move at all. For 6 months.

And now I realize it must have been dreadful, at first.

I often fantasize that one day I'd start my company and require that all resumes be submitted without a name on it.