Will always be executive positions riding the back of A.I doing all the analysis that leads to whatever decision is being made. I should be well seated into those roles well before my job is automated away.

My kids though, they will have to find an alternative route.

1) America is stable because of a very productive economy.

2) We must go full communist.

???

DeSantis's fight with Disney illustrates the collapsing social power of Hollywood. We started going downhill in 2016, and now we're tumbling down a steep hill towards a cliff.

OP: We're still a long ways off from automating most analytical positions. And even were we to generate an effective out of the box AI solution for analytics (most today are very bespoke), a very sizeable majority of middle-upper managers can't understand it, and the executives who do, which is by no means given, can't manage anything close to the entire process by themselves.

Politically we are stable at the current moment because of our interests in maintaining a productive economy.

However that doesn't mean we will remain stable if current trends continue. Automation and an increasing centralization of wealth is a force that will continue to erode the stabilizing forces that are present as a result of a productive economy. We need to rethink how we allocate and distribute the gains of economic productivity before that happens.

You are pretty out of touch if you think Hollywood has ever been a center of social change. It always follows what is already well underway and only does so after its profitable. DeSantis fight with Disney illustrates how out of touch the new "fuck trans people" wave of Republicans are with the average person. The average person doesn't want to make gender affirming care for adults illegal the way DeSantis does, and they aren't out to actively steal trans kids from their parents, and they aren't out to actively fight against evidence based practices the way DeSantis is. We are so far down the line on trans acceptance at this point that even Disney, one of the safest and companies that won't even allow LGBT content in its cartoons unless it goes through 50 layers of review to make sure it won't offend middle America, is against Republicans, and that's a death knell for the party.

It used to be Republicans used anti-evidence fear mongering over gay people, immigrants, blacks, etc. as cover for their pro-corporate agenda. Look over here at the gays while we gut your benefits and cut regulations on rail companies. But they've shifted in the past ~5 years to the minority bashing being the point even at the expense of pro-corporate policy, and that puts them at odds with basically every center of power in the country except the 10% of the country that are still racist and angry.

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Interesting.

So what steps would you take to solve this? Pretend for one minute that you are the Potus and can do anything you want.

Hollywood was very much front and center in the breakthrough of gay people into mainstream and the broad acceptance of gay marriage which nowadays even extends well into the GOP electorate.



Meanwhile, Democrats use pandering to minorities, LGBTQ people etc. as cover for their own pro-corporate agenda. Basically "corporatocracy with a rainbow flag".
Wokism is just the latest divide and conquer strategy by Capital, and folks like you eat it up.

Disney has offended middle America, that's precisely the point. I encourage you to branch out and make some acquaintances beyond your present circle, you're really out of touch. I spend most of my time surrounded by people who disagree with me, so I end up pretty balanced.

Trump's base is 30%+ of the electorate, a majority of Republicans and Independents are socially conservative. DeSantis was re-elected in a landslide, the progressive democrat appointed as saviour couldn't even beat out Charlie Crist.

To understand our current predicament you have to understand that corporations are people, literally. Disney is run by people, it's staffed by people, and they come to their jobs not as automatons but with all the normal human biases you'd expect. Disney's executives tried to stay out of the conversation, but they caved to internal pressure at the employee level, and Disney's employees unsurprisingly lean left-wing.

Take the Bud Light fiasco. It has been blown out of proportion, but it comes down to a mid level marketing exec making a bad mistake and alienating the core consumers of her product. She had no idea they'd react like that, that's the problem. These corporations often draw talent, especially in niche fields like marketing, that are from a narrow cultural pool. She's never interacted with your average Bud Light consumer, how would she know what's make them upset?

There is a "learn to code" joke here somewhere.