Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "MASSIVE Crisis: Jackson Mississippi Water FAILS u0026 Colorado River DRIES UP | The Kyle Kulinski Show" video.

Its not due to blatant corruption its blatant mismanagement that stems from idiotic economics policies. I'm an engineer and this is the shite we are trapped in. Across every industry and area that we operate in there a clowns with business, accounting and economics degrees who interfere in everything. It stems from a couple of things. First is there own self importance. They think that titles like manager mean they have to micromanage everyone and everything. Second They are trained to avoid spending and costs and it unbelievably pervasive. Have you ever heard how the Left have infiltrated universities and education??? Well its true, stone cold motherless true and most noticeable in humanities. Its also just as stone motherless true that the Right have infiltrated business and law schools. Its a system where they certain sacrosanct principles are to be leant NOT questioned. One of those is the principle of lowering costs. That gets practised as "spend as little as possible and delay everything possible to future dates when they are someone else's problem." This is also known as "kicking the can down the road" and it is practiced EVERYWHERE. No joke, they go to college and for 4 years they are told - lower costs & cut spending, lower costs & cut spending, lower costs & cut spending,..... as if it is some form of mystic mantra that will fix the world. And the easiest way to do that is DELAY & DELAY until its someone else's problem. I'm Australian but did my degree in America, I live in Oz but have worked in Canada and I can watch the news from anywhere these days. ITS THE SAME STORY EVERYWHERE and in EVERY INDUSTRY. Failures through spending cuts to maintenance.
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@buddygrimfield7954 Agreed. They aren't the same thing but they often go hand in hand. I'm an engineer who does control systems and have worked in water treatment. I find this incredible. When you're working on the waste water side its different. Even if its not working at 100% you are at least cleaning the water to some extent. Also waster water treatment plants are usually part of the process. Either your recycling back into a process plant or discharging into a settling pond system and as long as you're doing enough its reasonably fine. But when you're in potable water systems its another game entirely because people will be using that water to clean their clothes, shower, bath and most seriously drink and cook with. So if you are just off a slight amount you are putting people at risk.
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@jujutrini8412 Please top thinking that governments exist to benefit the general population. Its a quaint notion and wonderful ideal but the reality is that in the 5,000+ years of recorded history every empire, kingdom, nation and culture has eventually shown that its about the top 1% getting what they want while making the other 99% pay for it. The purpose of government is to control the general population NOT be controlled by it. Democracy is just a neat way to disguise that reality.
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@buddygrimfield7954 What most of the pundits talking about automation is complete bullshite. They are either ignorant journalists repeating PR from some company or some clown making "just imagine this technology" claims to raise money from investors. I have spent over 30 years across a variety of industries (manufacturing, mining, water treatment,... etc.) and I keep hearing the same ignorance again and again. With things like power grids, water supply systems and waste water systems we know what has to be done. There is nothing new in these systems. What we face are relentless pressure from ignorant people with economics degrees and business management backgrounds who have been given authority over things they have no expertise in. They go to college for 4 years and all they hear is endless repetition of "Don't spend, reduce costs & save money" as if its one of those musical phrases you can't get out of your head. The logic is simple - "lowering costs raises profits & increases bonuses." And everything they touch ends up like Jackson, Mississippi.
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@buddygrimfield7954 I have been doing industrial robotics since the late 1990s but not a lot in the last few years. Most people have no idea what we use industrial robots for and most of the stuff the media pump out are PR pieces for companies that will never sell a damn thing. One thing everyone needs to know is that the sci-fi stuff is sci-fi as in FICTION. Boston robotics has been promoting their electric dogs for years now and what are they actually good for. They can't sniff for drugs at the airport, they can't case sheep, they can't fetch a ball or stick. So what are they actually good for? 10-12 years ago they released the Internet equipped refrigerators, how many did they actually sell and how many do they sell now? Answers are not many and zero because not many people bought them and nobody makes them anymore because like so many techno gadgets they were a solution to a problem that never existed. Remember how a couple of years ago everyone was going have self driving cars and truck drivers were to become extinct? ANY and every engineer who knew what they were talking about said BULLSHIT. because we know what the task actually entails and its just impractical with current computers. One of the great buzzwords is AI and that's arguably the biggest tech lie ever. There is not such thing as an artificial intelligence. What we have are algorithms that can mimic specific tasks like a human does. Things like facial recognition and finger print I.D. Looking at stuff and deciding if they are the same or similar. There's so much misinformation about technology these days its almost a full time job explaining what's real and what's not.
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@jujutrini8412 Our tax dollars pay for nobody's corruption in the government. However tax dollars are often misused and way too many times used illegally. Your absolutely right we should get a say in how they are used and that's the problem with the influence of big money. Too much tax dollars goes to contracts that it simply shouldn't. Sometimes that's for projects that just should not be funded under any circumstance and other projects where the costs are ridiculously high or so insufficient that the project will never deliver. In the past the media has insisted on their right to publish or present stories that were uncomfortable to both government and big money. Those days are gone and they are not coming back. If you are interested in how the world works I watch a lot of Brown U. professor Mark Blyth. He's a political economist which means he's into how politics and economics interact. Here's a link to a talk he recently gave in Greece. its totally worth the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWjKvehIumg
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@buddygrimfield7954 YES its crap. Here's an example I use, sorry if its a longish explanation. When your driving and you turn a corner into a street you have never driven before. In your field of vision are staggering array of objects numbering in the millions. Leaves on trees, bricks, grass, parked cars and all the bits of those parked cars. What the human visual cortex can do is group things together. You don't see each leaf on a tree you just a tree. You don't see all the parts of a car just a car. You don't see every brick in a building just the building. The human visual cortex can not only identify groups and distinguish between those of concern and those that are irrelevant but do it in less than 1/50th of a second, even if the scene is totally knew. You brain is doing this right now. In the room where you are there are literally 1000s if not millions of separately identifiable objects plus all the sounds you can hear or things you can smell. The human brain can process sensory data in an extraordinary way and the data flow is barely comprehensible. If you ask anyone who's honest - How does a human brain do that and what's the algorithm that we can replicate in a computer? They'll simply stand there silent because we have no idea how it actually works except in the most basic terms. This is why a bunch of companies that a few years ago were madly telling the world how they would be first to have a fully autonomous car and/or fully autonomous helicopters to taxi people about have gone very silent. Nobody knows how a human brain actually does what it does let alone how to replicate it in a computer.
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@jujutrini8412 Fair point about the government contracts being corrupt. I mainly see them as incompetence rather than willful action. I also watch Richard Wolff and Yanis Varoufakis who's actually the host of that Mark Blyth talk I linked you. There's stuff I don't agree with them, but those are usually finer points or technical points (I'm an engineer).
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