Incredibly Poignant is the Cover of New Yorker this week

Eventually we're going to have to have some kind of universal basic income. Give everybody enough to survive and be happy while still leaving the option to get rich if you find something the machines can't do.Listen, yes it's a problem that 3/4ths of the population is homeless and starving to death. Nobody dislikes millions of children dying of malnutrition more than me. Trust me. But it's not fair to demand that the hard working robot owners pay more in taxes to help the people too lazy to own their own robots.

There's a Steinbeck quote that goes something like "Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."You're correct to an extent. In forensic science, for example, a lot of DNA analysis can be automated, but not all. In biology, research can't be 100% automated either. Chemisty requires dexterity as well.... So yeah, some things are at risk but at the same point, you can only do so much.Kindle subscriber here; very affordable. Newsstand prices have always been ludicrous. Plus, New Yorker pays a fuckton to get the best writers and they typically spend months on their stories. MUCH more value than, say, a $6 Cosmo.

It's actually an old anecdote from Bill Gates. He said that he prefers lazy workers because they find the quickest way to the solution.There is actual management theory that says that the best young candidates are those with 3.5 GPAs vs 4.0 because they usually have other life priorities which means they are faster workers.Probably a few million a year if I told anyone about them and they were used company wide. If i had access to the backend databases to do a few more simple lookups, I could probably get it around 90% automated as far as reports and paperwork goes.

I believe that in the future the majority of legal work will be done by programs that can read documents and give opinions. The majority of law schools will close. The remaining law schools will basically be filled by those with close ties to people who already are in charge of firms because obviously there need to be some human lawyers. Law school will be extremely expensive which will take care of the competition problem for those who can afford it.