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Robots Continue to Encroach on Human Employment

America’s newspaper of record had an interesting item earlier this month titled “The Robots Are Coming for Phil in Accounting.” The New York Times apparently meant to remind readers that smart machines aren’t just coming for simple manufacturing jobs, but also for the office gigs that require education.

True, it’s easier to imagine physical robots […]

Coronavirus 2020: Is the Cure Truly Worse Than the Disease?

Is the coronavirus response from Washington worth the economic devastation resulting from shutting down America’s economy?

That’s a question President Trump asked in a recent tweet:

WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF. AT THE END OF THE 15 DAY PERIOD, WE WILL MAKE A DECISION AS TO WHICH […]

Heather Mac Donald Questions the Media’s Coronavirus Narrative

Like a number of other people, Heather Mac Donald has expressed doubts about how the coronavirus story is playing out in the press: the media volume is turned up to high without a corresponding level of factual analysis.

Sadly, the New York Times missed her in Wednesday’s article scolding disbelievers of the approved narrative, From […]

New York Times Bashes Coronavirus Disbelievers

The New York Times is shocked, shocked that some Americans are suspicious of the politicization of the coronavirus illness. The press is stirring up an absolute panic over a sickness that is minor in terms of deaths — now in the low dozens in this country while the seasonal flu has killed 18,000 Americans.

As […]

Self-Driving Car Introduction Will Be Postponed

Serious technical difficulties regarding the safety of autonomous vehicles have been noticed by the executives who run automotive development, according to the New York Times.

Apparently, the real world of city streets has proved to be more complicated than the simple suburbs of the Silicon Valley area, where initial self-driving tests were run.

Below, Google’s […]

Robot Dishwasher Promises Less Human Scrubbing Will Be Done in Restaurants

Dishwasher seems like a perfect job for newbie unskilled immigrants: English is not required and training is probably an hour, max. It’s one of the more basic jobs. In fact, an open-borders booster website says, Immigrant Dishwashers Do the Jobs Americans Don’t Want, so we spoiled citizens apparently need foreigners to keep our plates clean.

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Tucker Carlson Explores the Coming Effects of Automation and Artificial Intelligence on Society — including Immigration

On Thursday’s show, Tucker Carlson connected the very important dots between automation-fueled job loss and immigration. He had seen the preview of the upcoming Sixty Minutes segment titled, Venture capitalist: AI will displace 40 percent of world’s jobs in as soon as 15 years.

Here’s a teaser video from Sixty Minutes (1:38 minutes in length) […]

Amazon’s Holiday Business Shows Increased Automation and Fewer Workers

Jeff Bezo’s incorporation of automation into online shopping has made Amazon the world leader in e-commerce by utilizing the technology of robots. His business acumen has also made him the richest man on earth, worth around $150 billion.

Now the holiday sales statistics are in, and the system is working well: there were more […]

Automation: Bill Gates Says to Tax Robots

The restructuring of the economy from market to automation-based is now being considered by serious minds. The discussion faces that future when humans have become less needed as workers because half or more of them have been replaced by machines. That social reality will be shattering to the system that we have lived with for […]

Trump Thumps the Great God Globalism

Candidate Donald Trump delivered a well crafted speech on Tuesday which attacked the globalist economy as harmful to American workers and destructive to the middle class. He criticized powerful interests, like Red China for its currency manipulation and our own government for its policies that have become such a menace to the general good.

The […]

Luntz Polling: Americans Are More Willing to Vote for Socialists

It’s interesting to see that Americans have become more open to socialism — pollster Frank Luntz found that nearly half of citizens would consider voting for a socialist candidate. Luntz thinks that outspoken socialist Bernie Sanders has charmed the voters with his persuasiveness and that accounts for much of the change, along with convenient political […]

Physicist Stephen Hawking Thinks Capitalism Will Crush the Future, Not Robots

I’ve been following the topic of automation destroying employment for a few years and am still waiting for a conservative response of what to do if indeed half of America’s jobs become displaced by smart machines in 20 years, as Oxford researchers have forecast. Coverage of the robot workplace revolution has been slim from conservative […]

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