WOT 90 – Paper Receipts and Time Zone Social Media

Enjoying the show, guys! Heads up, though... Don't think that dropping those McDonalds jobs in favor of automation creates just as many jobs in a different sector. It results in a few design jobs in America, maybe, but the manufacturing jobs go overseas where we've essentially outsourced slavery so we can get nice cheap cool gadgets here. =) Problem is, our economy is crumbling as a result. Now we have tons of unemployed people and the fed is just creating dollars right and left out of thin air - so now we're seeing big inflation... (They hide this - look up "hedonics") ... So soon we won't even get cheap stuff by our overseas slave labor. What's happening is America is turning into a nation of peasants, slowly but surely... They say "Well eventually things will balance." Exactly. US Workers will make just as little as our foreign worker competitors... Meanwhile, more and more wealth will be concentrated at the top. I know this is a Tech show, but what's interesting is also how the coming collapse of America as we know it -- technology will play a huge part in undermining any chance of a real resistance to form. Bad, bad things are afoot. Anyhow, good show.

Enjoying the show, guys! Heads up, though... Don't think that dropping those McDonalds jobs in favor of automation creates just as many jobs in a different sector.
It results in a few design jobs in America, maybe, but the manufacturing jobs go overseas where we've essentially outsourced slavery so we can get nice cheap cool gadgets here. =)
Problem is, our economy is crumbling as a result. Now we have tons of unemployed people and the fed is just creating dollars right and left out of thin air - so now we're seeing big inflation... (They hide this - look up "hedonics") ... So soon we won't even get cheap stuff by our overseas slave labor.
What's happening is America is turning into a nation of peasants, slowly but surely... They say "Well eventually things will balance." Exactly. US Workers will make just as little as our foreign worker competitors... Meanwhile, more and more wealth will be concentrated at the top.
I know this is a Tech show, but what's interesting is also how the coming collapse of America as we know it -- technology will play a huge part in undermining any chance of a real resistance to form.
Bad, bad things are afoot.
Anyhow, good show.