Doesn’t that encourage urban sprawl?
Doesn’t that encourage urban sprawl?
Thank you. I think anyone who spends a lot of time reading about history comes to these conclusions.
I understand now. Sorry about this. I hope you will be in a better siruation in the future.
How do the extra 5 hours help you? Do you get paid for these?
I wished to call out arrogant behavior in a fun way, but I may have been needlessly hurtful. I have edited my reply.
Self-censored
That’s the quorum
Yeah our alliance with Turkey is problematic for several reasons. I understand the great geopolitical benefits. Even now it is of great help in Ukraine. I think it’s a balancing act. Until they become more democratic, they are merely an ally of convenience, really an enemy at heart.
We Western nations should align with Armenia instead of Azerbaijan. I think it’s sad that a democracy had to align with Russia to survive. Democracies should stick together.
My hypothesis is that positions of power attract people who want power. Someone I know knew a protestant pastor. He was the worst kind of human, groomed a girl from his family, had no consideration for anyone. But there’s one person he really loved: himself.
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.