The bigger concern is here is the clear link between automation and increased worker mental instability.
Will automation lead to more populists revolts ?
I don't know but we need research into more solutions (besides just basic income), the problem is too big to ignore.
Something like a partial tax might be better.
A tax that doesn't affect the meat, the lower classes buy.
A much higher tax on the cuts of meat preferred by the upper classes.
Ex. no tax on ground beef, but a very high tax on filet mignon or ny strip steaks.
I personally think we can have a less divisive higher environmental impact by banning private jets.
A tax will lead to democrat losses in 2018.
The sugar tax in philadelphia galvanized republicans across the rest of PA during 2016.
Eating meat is incredibly important to the middle classes.
BBQ's are important social quasi-religious family bonding events in the United States.
Taxing meat will lead to backlash far bigger than a "tea party".
A counter example is Nintendo, where Sakurai was literally recorded, so people wouldn't be confused about the project status and what he told them to do.
Google needs to be investigated and broken up.
Its beyond time for an investigation and regulation of Google from the united states government.
Other countries are already starting work against Google.
The power Google wields over the general public warrants severe investigation at even the hint of abuse of power.
You are arguing something I'm not talking about at all.
This is obviously a heated topic for you, and as a democrat myself I don't think you are doing us any favors.
The hard-left isn't a good thing, they promote violence to achieve their agendas, and say things like "centrists get the bullet too".
I really despise the normalization of political violence.
Wow, thanks for this comment. It's hugely enlightening.
Its almost like female humans are the ones who desire masculinity in men to be happy more than the men need masculinity to be happy.
Really mind boggling.
We also need to put pressure on them to simplify and close loopholes in the 400 page net neutrality document.
I think an NRA-styled non-partisan single issue internet freedom organization is needed to put pressure on our elected officials.
It's amazing how much politicians fear the NRA, I wish we could get them to fear eroding our freedom.
Cloudflare's example is also a great reason why we also need to enforce neutrality on more than just the ISP to keep the internet free and open. The whole system from DNS providers, hosting, and other major internet companies need to have neutrality enforced on them.
I work with engineer whose is brilliant.
We originally thought he was jerk, but the bosses loved him because he was a 5x engineer with the ability to handle huge cognitive loads, catch errors or conflicts in our large systems in the planning phase.
It turns out he was neuro atypical, and was actually nice guy, it turned out he was the one paying for friday pizzas not the boss.
He was just too ahead of us, and honestly we let our inferiority complexes and frustration color our opinions of him.
I think apocalyptic warning don't work well for humans.
Competition and inspiration work better.
We need to reframe the way we discuss this, because after 25 years its clear the current frame is not working.
After the replication crisis, I also think trust in science has decreased significantly. Its now nearly 3 years from the original crisis, and the crisis has spread from social sciences to biological sciences.
So I don't expect warnings from scientists to suddenly be more effective, but actually less effective from now until the next scientific reformation.
I'm inclined to think bitcoin is a bubble, but cryptotech is the future.