Corporate capture of government regulatory agencies?
Perhaps that's what's happened in Germany with VW.
Time to start looking for a new planet to move to.
And time to put these corporate execs on a rocket to the sun.
Well, let's put it this way, a lot of other countries are going to have a debt crisis long before the US does. So while in some theoretical universe all nations of the world (including the US) might have unsustainable debt, it will be a long, slow-moving problem by the time it becomes a problem for the US.
No worry, this is what cars will eventually become. We'll likely do away with taxis and public busses and light rail. And we'll just have some public cars that merge into the traffic that's used by private cars. And all those cars, including the private ones will have automated driving.
The difference is, the private car owners will pay for private ownership and commodity fetishism (you thought that was going away?), and public car riders will likely have subsidized fares, police monitoring cameras, and stations (what bus stops used to be).
Some glue-huffing kid wants to carve his name into the windshield? No worries, the doors will auto-lock and drive Mr. Punk to the nearest police station. Stuck in a car with a rapist, scream for help and again, you're headed to a police station or you'll stop and the police will come to you.
Classic! This shows what I've been saying for a long time now - programmers suck at marketing and can't name products competently. I fully expect to be cruising Github one day and see a project named "TwizzleFartKWZ."
I don't think extra longevity is economically viable. I mean, it was a gigantic tooth-pulling process to pass health care reform. At some point it just becomes too expensive to remain alive.
No. The purpose of work is to combine labor with capital, in order to make more capital for owners. The goal of diminishing work is to push down labor costs for owners. Any and all extra value created by the combination of labor and capital must go back to the owners as more capital.
Social media is dead anyway. If these horrible subreddits have proved anything, it's that any community can be destroyed by a small handful of committed, horrible people.