Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "MIT Scientist Pushes Back on Andrew Yang's Automation Warnings | Joe Rogan" video.

@mitchellanderson3960 Trickle down economics never even existed.
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I have no reason to believe Yang, Fuckerberg can die in a ditch, and while I can respect Elon's accomplishments he's a little out there.
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@direwolf84 so? As soon as the first AI driver truck hits a person the bad PR and possible cries for legislation will give no option but to keep a human in the loop. Shit, the sign recognition software may be used to inject malicious code to either steal truck contents or flip the AI to hit people rather than avoid them. The kiosks have not done much at my local mcdonalds except move more people to the kitchen, there's still cashiers, kiosk orders in cash still need to be paid to humans. Instead of 3-4 people acting as cashiers and 3-4 as cooks, there's now 2-3 cashiers, 5-6 cooks and 2-3 people at the delivery counter. There's also increased demand due to Uber eats, without kiosks they wouldn't be able to handle the increased workload.
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@direwolf84 I'm not saying anyone cares, if you need to misunderstand my comments on purpose to make a point please reevaluate your message. Autonomous trucks will save a lot of money until the lawsuits over dead people or the losses from thieves start burning a hole in their pockets.
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@NiteEy3 yeah and would you rather work in a 1800s factory where you had to put your hands on dangerous machinery?
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@NiteEy3 because automation bad
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@NiteEy3 mine isn't, it's you who's complaining about machines
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"Code only has to be written once, and you can scale it up infinitely, at no cost" - So... how much software have you coded?
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@ysz10000 my girlfriend works as a programmer, and work is never done. There's no final version. Difference between product and service. Even software sold as a product is constantly updated.
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@ysz10000 and we replaced many manual tasks in the old old economy. It protected humans from very dangerous work, it protected children (child labor was already in decline when it was officially banned by law). We can't complain about cashiers and warehouse workers being treated like farm animals and denied bathroom breaks and then complain that we need manual labor to keep these people employed. For example, CNC machining hasn't completely killed manual machining and even CNC machinery needs skilled operators to oversee the production.
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@ysz10000 "distribute the gains from machinery fairly" - how so?
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@ysz10000 Which is a scam. The extra taxes on companies will be passed down to consumers, companies that can't remain competitive with the extra taxes will move overseas, and the VAT will also affect your purchasing power. All the money you'll get through UBI, you'll be paying it back with the increased cost of goods. Even if it works out like Yang claims. It's still a scam. For example, with an extra thousand bucks you won't be eating double. You won't be driving twice as long to work. You won't get two netflix accounts and you won't be acquiring two internet or phone services. But people will do things like buy more pairs of shoes, more clothes, drink more Starbucks, order more things from Amazon, etc. UBI will steal money from *all businesses*, even the ones that won't get extra demand, but give it back to corporations that benefit from consumerism.
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So much this.
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