Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "A.I. is about to change the world" video.

@Napoleonic_S By chance have you ever seen the TED talk that Nick Hanauer gave titled "Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming"? Its here on YT and in part of it he explains what Henry Ford did with wages for his workers. Its something you will NOT here from most of todays business leaders.
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Aerospace Engineer here - This was actually a lot better than I thought it was going to be because of the title. I generally hate people who over-hype expressions like "will change everything" because most times its just hype. BUT what you're talking about here is consequences and that's something very few people ever consider. I have spent most of my 30+ years in industrial control systems and have seen FIRST HAND what happens when you shut down massive slabs of industry without consideration of consequences. I used to work in the supply chains of the Australian automotive industry making production cells for parts that went onto cars. Under the wonderful ideology of neoliberal economics we shut down that entire industry because they claimed "We can get cars made overseas for less money and consumers will be better off!" The question those economists never answered was - What were all those people who had spent years (in many cases decades) making car parts and assembling cars going to do next? Some of those people who lost their jobs weren't even employed in any company that made car parts or cars. they were people like the truck drivers who took raw materials to factories or the parts made in one factory to the next factory in the supply chain. They were people like me who made or serviced production machinery or the technicians, machinists, welders and electricians who made and serviced those machines or the people who supplied all the stuff we made those machines out of. Not only were those questions NOT answered, they were NOT even asked and still to this day has NEVER been answered. Fun fact that all neoliberal economists ignore - unemployed people don't buy much because they don't have the money to buy much. There's been a general decline of the retail sectors across the developed world and yet NOBODY seems to have put the fact that millions of people were laid off from high paying value adding jobs in manufacturing into less productive almost ZERO value adding service sector jobs. NOW many of those very service sector jobs are facing annihilation, because YET AGAIN the psychotically greedy and selfish maniacs we call business leaders don't care about the consequences of their decisions.
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