Quote (Husalaah @ Jun 23 2019 02:37am)

What is this about? Don't want to commit to a listen before I know

Quote (Husalaah @ Jun 22 2019 06:37pm)

What is this about? Don't want to commit to a listen before I know

Quote (Husalaah @ Jun 22 2019 08:37pm)

What is this about? Don't want to commit to a listen before I know

Quote (Lasagnacat @ Jun 22 2019 08:43pm)

Same here

Quote (ofthevoid @ Jun 22 2019 08:43pm)

Doesn’t matter.

Yang 2020 = 1,000 dollars

No Yang = no 1000 dollars

All that matters

Quote (Husalaah @ Jun 22 2019 06:37pm)

What is this about? Don't want to commit to a listen before I know

Quote (Beowulf @ Jun 23 2019 02:51am)

Details his early life and his rise to fame in temple of doom and the goonies and later to becoming an entrepreneur

ubi, technology, automation

that we are on an unsustainable path and we need to decide between dealing with it now which will be less shitty or later at maximum shitty

encouraging entrepreneurial guidance and spirit rather than grabbing the and becoming complacent in a shitty dying industry

finding value in things that currently are too overlooked like raising kids at home

all the stuff he talks about on the trail

Quote (Husalaah @ 23 Jun 2019 03:37)

What is this about? Don't want to commit to a listen before I know

Quote (Lasagnacat @ 23 Jun 2019 03:43)

Same here

Quote (Jupe @ 23 Jun 2019 03:43)

its the war on normal people aka brainlets

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I found this book relatively impressive and frightening. Yang, a former lawyer, entrepreneur, and non-profit leader, writes showing with inarguable data that when companies automate work and use new software, communities die, drug use increases, suicide increases, and crime skyrockets. The new jobs created go to big cities, the surviving talent leaves, and the remaining people lose hope and descend into madness. (as a student of psychology, this is not surprising)

He starts by painting the picture of the average American and how fragile they are economically. He deconstructs the labor predictions and how technology is going to ravage it. He discusses the future of work. He explains what has happened in technology and why it’s suddenly a huge threat. He shows what this means: economic inequality rises, the people have less power, the voice of democracy is diminished, no one owns stocks, people get poorer etc. He shows that talent is leaving small towns, money is concentrating to big cities faster. He shows what happens when those other cities die (bad things), and then how the people react when they have no income (really bad things). He shows how retraining doesn’t work and college is failing us. We don’t invest in vocational skills, and our youth is underemployed pushed into freelance work making minimal pay. He shows how no one trusts the institutions anymore.

Then he discusses solutions with a focus on Universal Basic Income. I was a skeptic of the idea until I read this book. You literally walk away with this burning desire to prevent a Mad Max esque civil war, and its hard to argue with him. We don't have much time and our bloated micromanaged welfare programs cannot sustain.