For his weekly monologue U.K pundit Neil Oliver weaves the outline of how government officials, and the system creators who support them, have dismissed the inherent ability of humankind to advance itself without external inputs.
Indeed, in the biggest of big pictures the inherent skills and ability of the individual to overcome great challenge is factually a unique attribute to people, human beings. We were born by the grace of a loving God, with a very unique set of abilities in the universe of life. We can learn, discover, formulate and achieve great things when we focus as individuals on the issues of greatest priority. Everything Mr. Oliver states in this monologue is inherently true, naturally true and empirically true.
Ultimately, as governments -consisting of people- and technocrats, again more people, attempt to subvert and replace unique human abilities with technological advancements, you always end at a place where a physical person with skill is needed to accomplish the mechanics of what the designed system cannot provide.
In very real terms, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Klaus Schwab and every person who operates within the system of creating or promoting artificial intelligence, likely does not possess the skill to manage their own household plumbing or repair a broken weld. WATCH:
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Neil skirts around an issue that I have contemplated for years. Just as surgeons possess specific sets of skills that can repair a human body, ultimately so too do blue-collar workers hold similar skillsets.
I can easily envision a time (it’s coming soon) when the average population is so critically incapable of fixing things, an outcome of diminished emphasis on doing, that the value of those who can fix things will afford them incredible income.
As technology continues to drive forward, the financial value assigned to irreplaceable physical human labor will ultimately invert. Surgeons may indeed be replaced by machines, but robots will never be able to fix a leaky roof. There are just too many variables and the technocrats do not think of such things.
Technocrats, IMHO, are the most EASILY replaced!
No need for actual replacement…
And Technocrats are ALWAY wrong.
For example Bill Gates saying no one will ever need more than 640 Kilobytes of Memory.
Bill Gates has always been a hack and a thief. Period.
He is the dumbest man on Earth. I figured him out years ago. He got where he is by selling his soul to Satan.
Licensed, not sold.
LOL!
Yep
Bill’s Dad saved his butt by buying up Seattle Computing’s software to make IBM’s PC run.
Gates took (stole) Gary Kildall’s technology (CP/M) and resold it to IBM. He is a master of using business tactics to freeze out better technology (the code’s not done ’till Lotus won’t run). He got IBM to spend big on technically superior OS/2, then screwed them by producing bug-laden Win 95. That OS was crap until finally Win 98sp1 came out.
I believe there was more at play here than Bill’s acumen. A high level exec from IBM, President IIRC, was on the board of Planned Parenthood with one of Bill’s parents, who had significant money. Bill’s parents were eugenics proponents.
The story I read was that IBM told Bill where to buy the OS and purchase per computer was already agreed to. I think of it as an ideologically centered mentoring.
Think about a dinner table conversation in Bill’s house when he was in his teens. What was the conversation likely about? Do you think principles that would drive someone to be on the board of directors of Planned Parenthood (eugenics) come up? Would a young teenager be impressionable and indoctrinated by his trusted and loving parents? I’m pretty sure the ideological nut doesn’t fall far from the tree.
I had a similar vision of what George W. Bush’s fireside chats with H.W. were like in his teens as I watched GW attend church as governor of Texas and later POTUS….
“Poppy, why do we go to church?”
“George, we are important leaders of the destiny of America and the New World Order. We lead a people that, sad is it is, are not very bright. We have to make them believe that we believe, so that they’ll follow their religion and turn the other cheek as we do the hard work of improving the world. ”
You don’t believe in God?
No, George. God and that religion are tools to help the people through hard times.
But don’t we need that, too?
No, George. Hard times will never come to the leaders of the world. And make no mistake, we are the leaders of the world. (Read my lips, no more taxes! Sorry, it just came out…)
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“Everything is a Rich Man’s Trick”
And by stealing technology.
He has always been a manufactured figurehead
with a manufactured background story.
Dennis 53
You just described obama as well!
Guardian:
[after his hand involuntarily shakes as they’re loading their cartridges] Old.
Kyle Reese:
Not obsolete.
Guardian:
Not yet.
Stunted development.
The Powers That Be (TPTB) by introducing artificiality into the free market have stunted innovation.
If it can be imagined it can be built and it (a system) can be built to self maintain.
We cannot see the future but only history receding in our wake.
Complexity theorists assure us that an apt synonym for complexity is vulnerability.
Even Marx argued that Division of Labor increases alienation and intelligibility in a society.
As each of us is compelled to devote ourselves to a sliver-of-a-sliver of output, our work-chore becomes increasingly unrelatable to our neighbors who are buried other slivers of the Machine.
Technocratic specialization leads to the paradox of everyone forgetting how to perforn the simplest tasks such as tying our own shoes.
2/3 of Government Employees could be fired. Why do we have them when simple computers can churn out worthless date without them?
They are three true useless eaters.
He’s right, once again. Love him.
In a related vein:
Show This To Every Woke Person You Know
Well, they are working to get rid of pilots and the variables we deal with are literally infinite…so…
The F35 needs zero pilot input to land on an aircraft carrier in any weather. Airliners have had that for a long time.
Recently I’ve been studying the Cirrus VisionJet, a jet-powered personal aircraft. It features the AutoReturn capability whereby, in case of pilot incapacitation, any passenger can push a large red button in the center of the cabin ceiling. The plane’s computers then take over, sending out an automated mayday on all channels, routing itself to the nearest safe landing spot, and landing the craft, all without human intervention. Pretty amazing tech.
The 747s and subsequent iterations can land themselves. Always could.
Space Shuttle can launch and land autonomously. In fact, 99.99% of the time, that’s by far safer. To override the automated landing, had to string a cable across the cabin between two connectors.
So why did they have a Commander and Pilot? Nobody’s all that interested in hearing a drone or robot speak at an elementary school. Astronauts and their experiences in space are what draws the public’s interest (when it does). At least that was the prevailing wisdom of the time, Mars rover popularity not withstanding (now).
A large red button when pushed says “that was easy”?
What happens if it malfunctions, as technology all too often does?
Good luck with that. Try sailing a boat or flying a plane; or learning how .. using robots.
Back in the 1970s, my uncle had a boat that could be programmed to start in San Francisco bay and end up in Tokyo. The only available processor was the 6502.
You mean like a tesla vehicle?
They’ve tried that on ships for decades. Many accidents have resulted.
Here is a case in point:
The Biden Administration’s economic policies are driving retail and consumer markets to act irrationally.
Despite rampant inflation driving prices through the roof, many food and beverage services expect an added 20 percent tip no matter what. Nearly all services demand a 4% merchant card surcharge if you use a credit card to pay for their invoice.
And, despite the long tradition of tipping across the US, the rise of service iPads and tablets have sparked anger among those like me who feel the complimentary custom is completely out of hand
The technology is inappropriately used: You get to the counter to pay, the iPad is flipped in front of you, and the tip button is right there with the staff staring at you. You are expected to pay more for the service that already has a 20% service charge added on. I would always tip, until they started shoving the screen in my face demanding a tip.
Me too..ordered Sushi last week at our favourite local restaurant.
We order on line and save 10%..upon picking up our order ( the restaurant is a two minute drive) I discovered a 2% charge to us for using our card.
They are very good people..yet we would never tip on a pick up order, but the option was there on the pad.
We said nothing about the 2% charge, as the place was busy.
Our next order will be paid with cash though.
3 to 4% vendor charge, 2% customer charge.
That is one of the reasons we own dividend paying bank stocks.
A great racket these big banks..
Cheers!
Catherine Austin Fitts (The Solari Report) once advised Cash Fridays, now it is Cash Everyday. I still use my credit card for online things, but has been an enlightening experience to use cash only locally. People in the grocery and other stores I go to seem to appreciate cash greatly. They pay no fees to an intermediary.
I finally reconciled my receipts to cash out today as I having been doing this for about four months now. I thought it would be a long slog but it wasn’t at all. Just have to remind myself to get a receipt.
Any business that won’t take cash is a loser. And when you pay cash they won’t stick that forking machine in your face, or potentially steal your credit card info (been there done that three or more times now. That sucks).
Good luck. Leave a good tip in cash only. You won’t believe the smiles.
Great Stuff!
Yep, Cash is King!
We have Euros, Pound Sterling, U.S. and our Canadian dollars in a very secret spot.
Treepers would do well to educate family into old world thinking as regards their finances.
I am Scot.
( we invented Copper Wire by fighting over a penny)😉
I am not on Fakebook but use the “ Marketplace “ I am not sure how they will ever successfully curtail such cash sites.
If a vendor wants an e-transfer the advertisement is ignored.
Cheers!
A few months ago, I was ranting here…I used cash at one of Walmart’s self checkout machines..
It shorted me a penny. One little one one hundredth of an American dollar. I brought it to the attention of the monitor in that area and ultimately got a penny back.
I did the math on one person per hour, in one store per day…multiplied it by the number of stores in America, daily, for 24/7/365. The hidden profit for WMT was in the hundreds of thousands.
Well done!
our target is the worst in that department–even the fluffy dollar bill part.
well done! I have found I can almost entirely avoid shopping at Wal-Mart. I use farmers markets when available for fresh produce, local grocery stores and the Dollar store for most things.
I only go to Wal-Mart when it’s almost unavoidable, and when I do go there, I pay cash at a register tended by a human.
As a child in the fifties I watched my dad keep a running total of the shopping cart’s contents (in his head).
Woe be unto the cash register clerk who came up with a different total than dad’s…. and he was ALWAYS correct.
Dad was a proof reader.
I still do this and immediately know when something off such as an item was swiped twice.
Also I always pay cash for gas. Always ask for a receipt.
Once in NC, someone came running out demanding payment for the gas just pumped. Produced the receipt and they left.
Here in NY, recently had problems with the pump not coming on after paying in the store. The employees wanted me to pay again but I produced the receipt and made them confirm no gas was pumped from that pump. I no longer go to either location.
Back in the 1960s, a bank programmer put all interest payments of less than one penny into his bank account. When he was caught he had “saved” $50,000.
This type trick is common on big box store sale prices. Seems half the time, I have to make them honor the sale price or point out the shelf flyer says the price is lower. Cashier always seems surprised, but completely willing to reduce the price on a verbal comment. That tells me it’s part of the business model… 10% ask for the correct price, extra 15%-30% for all the others that came in for the discount but didn’t pay attention, played off as an unavoidable mistake. Really? You can’t program your price discounts in your computer by bar code? I thought computers were smarter than people.
I’ve heard that your typical Scot has money in his pocket that will never see the light of day.🙂
Many years ago an American woman was visiting Scotland.
Talking to a shop clerk. She explained she was Scot on her mother’s side.
She opens her purse and takes out her wallet closed with Velcro something – the Scotsman had never seen. She pulled the wallet open it let out the characteristic tearing sound…
Aye ye must be a Scotsman the clerk said. Your purse screams when ye open it!
I heard that story about 50 years ago. It’s still funny.
Especially since BiteMe wants to screw tip-based employees…Nobody under $400,000, Joe??
You disgusting grifter, Joe! You lie as easily as tell the truth.
Obama made the same promise but I still pay more for a fraction of that.
Thanks to Catherine Austin-Fitts, I only have 1 credit card that is used at gas stations when traveling, and online shopping. I am cutting my online shopping down as much as possible, and finding local sources!
Also, I shop at locally owned stores and avoid the “big box” and chain stores as much as possible.
What I see is cashier’s face go blank if they have to handle cash. Even when the machine tells them how much change to return.
As a kid I helped out in the little waterfront cafe where my mom worked, and she taught me the foolproof way to do it. Say a customer owes you 69 cents for a cup of coffee (yes, it really used to be that cheap!) And they give you a dollar. Just count from 69 to one hundred as you pull out the coins. If it’s three quarters instead you’d count up to seventy five, and so on. After that I never had ro worry about giving back the wrong amount of change. I also learned to fold each bill in half and put it on top in the drawer until the transaction was through to avoid the “I gave you a twenty” scam.
My sense is this pattern is reversing, at least a bit. I’m getting easily counted change now more times than not. A welcome change, if that’s what it is.
I’m a senior on a tiny fixed income. I don’t leave gigantic tips. I can’t afford to. Of course I still tip, but the whole practice has gotten out of hand. I expect soon we’ll be expected to tip grocery clerks and hospital personnel.
Somebody has to pay the 2% to Visa , Mastercard, whatever. Usually, the establishment picks it up, but once in a while it gets passed on. I think it’s rare , but I’ve run into it. Actually, when my daughter was in college, we payed monthly with bank transfers through a portal… and if you chose to use a card, they ding for the 2 or 3%.
Monthly apartment rent, that is…
Interesting..thanks for that.
I thought this was a new racket, charging both the vendor and customer.
So the vendor pays his % and there has always been a customer % hmmm.
This 2% charge we received was the first time I have ever seen it.
We are fortunate in that we have never paid interest on a card, so maybe we have been too complacent.
One thing We picked up on recently was that a certain MasterCard is not accepted at the pump at local gas stations.
Apparently the vendor % is too high.
Cheers!
This charge is why credit cards have never caught on the Latin America. The bank charges the fee to the vendor, and he passes it on to the customer … Plus cash is private. Nobody knows.
No discount for cash as opposed to paying by card here in the UK. Everything has the card % included even cash payments.
It’s best not to ever use a card “at the pump” unless you want your info stolen.
They’ve started doing it for car payments and even utility bills too. Everyone promises to wave it if you’ll let them take it out automatically, but I’m not falling for that scam ever again. Too many times they’ve taken it out days before they’re supposed too, or taken out more than the agreed on amount.
Being a merchant, one of my customers was another business that tried to talk me into the merchant service that they use because it automatically dings you the customer for whatever the transaction fee is for your purchase.
I told him that I would not do that as it will only um… tick people off and they will not necessarily come back again for this reason.
I have minimized my fees incurred by doing a little merchant services shopping, finally settled on using square (even tho it is JACKie D’s property pre-twitter days).
It is about as low a fee as you can get (reputably anyway) which is like 2.6 percent for a card present transaction plus a swipe/dip/tap fee. (including AMEX)
So at 2% you are not paying the full cost that they are paying, (IDK what the vendor charge is) I found out recently that some card issuers do not even deal with Square and decline use of the card, I posted the story here before… lets just say the customer was not happy at his card issuer.
That means to me Square does not pay enough to their system to give them the profit they desire to move money electronically from their system so they decline the transaction…. so lets see… the wally worlds that do huge volume is okey dokey but small business nope. (big biz don’t pay squat due to volume) (and wally world filed to become a bank too so they can pay even less, outcome unknown)
Guess I am not paying my “fair share”, of course when I first got into business and had merchant services thru my bank, they literally ripped my head off, rate might have been realistic but fees …. they charged ME for what ever rewards program you are getting on your card….. some of those rang up to 8% – 10% of your transaction total. (swipe fee + standard (or manual card entry+$) service fees + rewards card fees)
“They are very good people..yet we would never tip on a pick up order, but the option was there on the pad.”
I too will not generally tip on a pickup order, but some people that patronize me get offended that (when I used to click thru the tip screen as a no tip (custom tip is there as well & percentages buttons) ) I did not give them a chance to tip me.
Either way I do not generally look at it anyway to see what tip was and am not offended personally if you do not tip on a pickup, but since being called out for not allowing it, YOU must click thru it, don’t take it personally.
Some personnel may be offended if you do not but……. they are getting paid… and with minimum wage here of 12 bucks an hour (realistically now 17 is what the McDs & the like pays, most are overpaid for their….. work….. or lack thereof.
I have been using cash only for non-online business as much as possible, not only are you helping the small business from what may be exorbitant fees, but you keep the ( um .. blame) bankers from making money that they just don’t deserve.
Why would/should I deposit money in my bank, only to force a merchant (or force it on yourself for that matter), to pay the transaction fee for the convenience of using a plastic card? Not to mention the potential tracking the govt seems to be implementing.
The only scenario I see that working in is if you live in a big city and or a high crime rate area so you don’t get cash robbed from you.
You can generally get cash from an ATM for either No or a low fee, or go and withdraw cash that is electronically deposited for free from a teller (altho wells fargo here has a teller fee LOL… um NO find another bank.)
If everyone started using more cash the banks would be crying, worked with an Ex-banker, said that most of their profit comes from all the fees they pound you with, not interest on the dollars they safekeep for everyone.
But I will digress since this is getting long winded.
Wells Fargo, AKA Wells Black Hole, where your money goes to disappear.
You do know how much the Shop has to pay the Bank when you pay by Card. ……… Why should the shop not pass this Levy on to the person using the card. ……. The alternative is to put up their Sushi price to every-one as many shops do.
The answer to this is simply for the shop keeper to post for a cash discount to avoid fees. Same thing for the tip – ask customer if they’d like to make a tip, not required, and let them decide. You can post an explainer note on a menu, on a table placard, even a sign on the wall.
I have never been, nor ever will, be offended by a small business merchant explaining that credit costs more because of all the fees. Just make it clear to the customers that don’t know the fee structure so they can decide if the convenience is worth THEIR money.
Chris: The problem you describe, regarding “coerced” tipping, at uncustomary and unreasonable percentages, and often based on the after tax price, has gotten completely out of hand.
We quit going to any business that expects us to pay a set gratuity.
In the US,
A forced percentage gratuity is regarded as wages by the IRS not a tip/gratuity. So places can’t/don’t/won’t enforce it, it (more likely) may be a ‘suggested” tip that you can change…
Hence if you notice the fine print on say a, Jabba the Hut commercial, little disclaimer that if a delivery fee is imposed, it is not a tip, please tip your driver.
Same goes for large group table minimum gratuity percentage, you don’t have to pay it, dare them to justify it if you feel the service you got not was worth it, a large majority of (well satisfied with a great server) people overlook it and tip in addition to it…. it is big bonus tip for the server if you end up tipping…..35% – 50%.
Now there are many reasons servers abuse this sort of thing, there are people that come in as a big group, Adult child is taking (mom, dad, grand… whomever) to dinner. Adult pays for just the meal and whomever recipient of the event wants to cover the tip (usually in cash).
They may or may not know how much the meal was and tip (back in my day….. old people tip dollars) 5 bucks … 10 bucks on a 200+ dollar meal….. 5%…. not worth a servers time….. as Mr. Piddles said above…. someone is going to pay for it, people that don’t read the bill especially happy customers pay for it.
Just a heads up for everyone.
Would like to add that back when I waited tables, you had to add up your check subtotals for the day and pay 8% on that as taxes for the IRS. This was in the 1980’s and early 1990’s. Not sure what the rate is now.
80% percent of sales these days are in plastic, whether it be debit or credit.
Most people tip on their cards, some only tip in cash. Statistically, people tip & spend more (alot more) when it is put on plastic, good for me and good for servers. <according to this old study 83%more>
Servers had to sign their tip sheet printed out by the merchant machine at the end of the night/shift, it also had a space to insert cash tips, and my policy on that was it can’t be zero as no one believes that, including me and the IRS.
When I was a delivery driver I got really good tips by virtue of showing good customer service. I used to skim off my own tips when working at one place because if I didn’t I knew the manager would take part of it for herself.
The latest I have seen is the bill that does the math for you. If this percentage, then your total is. There was a real need for that, based on the math proficiency of too many customers.
Or those making change at the register.
Dumbfound them, give them the coinage after they quickly press the 5,10,20,50,100 dollar shortcut button built into the registers now a days & watch the show…. assuming you have the time & tolerance.
Helps the IRS though. They are going after wait staff again. I remember when they did this decades ago. They went to the resorts where high dollar business men would tip well on the corporate credit card and used that standard to punish all wait staff nationwide who obviously didn’t get tipped the same as an employee at a 5star resort. Ugh.
The IRS is the most fair department of the entire government, just ask them, and the extra 87,000 of em should that happen.
So immigrate to Australia. …….. We also have full Voter Identification and hand counted paper votes scrutinised by representatives of those standing for Office . ……. And before you bring up the Fire-arms fallacy note that I have ten fire-arms.
Are the candidates just picking the lesser of two evils like here in the USA?
And you also got total lockdown during covid too. Has that ever been completely lifted?
At a local restaurant here they have so many tip jars I have to pick one. What happened to the days when tips were split? And the food is brought to your table on a robotic cart. It’s gotten to the point where the expected tips cost more than the meal.
My favorite is the grocery delivery model. You have to pay a set fee for the delivery, $7 I think (Houston, TX area HEB). But then they add as a separate line item the 10% tip. So for a $50 grocery bag, and yes that’s probably just one bag, you add $12 to the price. All so you don’t have to drive 2 miles, park your car, then call and tell them you’ve arrived.
On the plus side, if I do curbside pickup and shop in the app, I do not EVER have the impulse buys of anything that could result when walking the store. And that’s particularly important if I’m going to send my kids to pick it up.
That said, I need to change my habits to run out of perishables in sync with the local farmers’ markets and butchers…
The bedrock of this country and others is comprised of men and women who have the skills to do the work which those who wish to destroy them (and who have been working overtime to get rid of) can’t.
The old saw “They need us more than we need them” has never been truer than it is today.
God eternally bless the people in America who keep everything working and running. They are the salt without which our nation’s body would perish.
Its true many places are hiring and woke business is laying off.
Ah Betsy, am triggered!!! Literally, the nation’s body would perish!
Big business tried culling the nationwide nursing staff and they found they could not do it. The biggest budget in hospitals used to be the Department of Nursing. They would have been successful if not for the various nursing organizations…
The Affordable Care Act added so much ridiculous charting for ridiculous tasks to compensate the businessMEN anger over having to pay what they thought was ridiculous salaries to nurses….
I spend almost 75% of my time in front of the computer charting. And ‘fighting’ with electronic scanners that don’t work properly, Pathetic busywork.
Going back further when the business offices of hospitals and other health care entities were scrambling over the ACA…
Bernie Sanders was then pushing to elevate other hospital employee salaries/wages while reducing the nursing salaries/wages. You know, that all democratic equality thingy.
Which leads me to this thought I have mentioned before….the disappearance of higher end but affordable department stores that have been pushed out of business….because of Walmart, Target….while Kohls and Penney’s reduced the quality of the stuff they sell (somewhat). Lower prices, more and cheap variety, affords more people the opportunity to by cheap stuff from china.
Da Vinci surgical robotics is from Intuitive Surgical Inc. ISRG. Is such a great/sarc company that it does not pay a dividend and is about 13% Overpriced per yahoo business stock quote. Closed at 238.91 on Friday.
I dare and defy TPTB to provide a robot to comfort a grieving family at a death bed…or when their loved one goes into cardiac arrest while they are AT the bedside. Or make a sandwich at 3am for a hungry patient because the ‘kitchen’ is closed. or troubleshoot the heart monitors and ventilators.
“…turn the hearts of our enemies and if not then turn their ankles so we will know them by their limp”.
PS–I would really like to see how a robotic snow plow would work on Chicago expressways…oh wait, we won’t have cars.
Oh how well said, my friend. Your frustration and anger are apparent in every single word. And for you and your sister and brother nurses, I am so sorry. Compassion and care have been deliberately driven out in the places you work. God bless you for keeping your soul and your dedication to do the best you can for the patients you tend intact .
I can’t call them hospitals anymore. I think it was Mike Adams who renamed them “murder factories”.
By the way, in the UK, the NHS, a monolith of cult worship, the highest paid employees in it are the administrators on numbers which are vastly higher than those who staff their filthy, disease ridden, diversity infested, not fit for purpose wards and theatres. I have more to say about that but will say only that in corporate owned “hospitals” here, healing is not the purpose of them anymore. I’m not sure it is anywhere…
Wait until THEY get old and weak and they need a nurse/caregiver; there’ll never be a robot that can do that.
I experienced something special late today which directly relates to this topic.
I saw an attractive, petite, young blonde woman outside an auto parts store, today, in Bellingham, Washington. She was using a jump box to start her car. She appeared in her mid-twenties…perhaps, I thought, she was a college student at Western Washington University.
The car is a 1965 Chevrolet Impala. She was ALONE, working on the car. I noticed the big V-8 had chrome valve covers and other chrome accessories and the engine cast parts were painted red.
When she got the engine started, it sounded brand new and ran like a top. I told her the engine sounded great. She told me it was a 350 cubic inch V-8. She then blew me away with her narrative.
She had completely rebuilt the engine herself, from top to bottom. She rebuilt the five-speed manual transmission and the entire suspension system of this car. She brought the vintage car back from the dead. I was speechless.
She went into great detail about the crankshaft, the cam, the carburetor and other engine components.
She told me she bought the skeleton of this 58-year-old car at a junk yard in Colorado and hauled it back to her home in Washington state.
She rebuilt this vintage car BY HERSELF. She laughed when I remarked what an accomplishment it was and she said, “Well, it has taken FIVE YEARS to do it.”
The car interior is good. The body needs paint but the car runs and drives great.
I asked if she was a student at the college. She said, “No, I am an electrician.”
You would never believe, by just looking, this young woman was so accomplished with such practical skills and dedication to achieve such goals.
There is no doubt people who can actually DO such things will own the future and be very well paid for their knowledge and these remarkable skills and dedication.
And just think how far ahead she is from those going to university for any one of the myriad useless degrees available. Those who sign themselves up for bone crushing debt for which it will be a struggle to ever pay off.
Smart girl who will never be regret that she didn’t choose to go in the direction most of her contemporaries probably did.
I wish her the very best of what life has to offer.
Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. Those who can’t teach, teach teachers. Those who can’t teach teachers go into government.
I know of a woman who became a fantastic engineer (as in world renowned) who started out on a car.
Apropos to the topic, this last week my car mechanic fixed my phone, something I had been trying to accomplish for more than a week (every day) yet phone company employees could not accomplish.
My favorite tip of the week (which I haven’t had opportunity to try yet) is to bypass the endless and irritating AI answering phones (that I don’t wish to aid in “getting smarter”) is to push 2 keys in succession. First push the number zero and second push the number symbol aka hashtag. 0#
Hope it saves time and temper by getting to a human before spending half an hour battling a machine.
Does work with many companies but not all. You don’t normally get straight through to someone, it just jumps you to the end of the queue.
Sometimes it works against you by sending you to a department you didn’t want.
Bellingham…awesome. We live by the Peace Arch crossing in British Columbia.
Pre Covid we were in Bellingham approximately once a month.
Great Stuff!
The very definition of hot. 🤠❤️🤙🏼🇺🇸
what if this time …
We Humans have finally learned that government, any government is ultimately in the end.. evil.
What if we stop repeating this mistake we’ve made for thousands of years; and collectively, just stop and take a different road together. (dare to dream)
“Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely”
Lord Acton
https://www.acton.org
Great food for thought!
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.
Frank Herbert
Stephen Covey defined leadership as telling others their worth and potential so clearly that they see it in themselves. As we approach the season of Lent, once again we will recount the story of greatest leader ever. He is worth following. Those Neil is talking about, not so much.
The elitist class have no appreciation for the fact that we’re all divinely created and as such have unique, individual qualities and talents.
In many ways, I feel sorry for these people. They’re victims of their own fear, ambition and insecurities.
Don’t use the word ‘elitist’ or ‘elite’, they are not.
Decision makers, leaders or legislators, yes. Rich, yes–in money.
But impoverished in everything else.
Those that think they are our betters, and they remind us of it every day- cant do anything for themselves. Once people realize this the power structures shift and it all comes crashing down.
Indeed, “Learn To Code” should tell you everything you need to know about those fools. Lik… that’s it?… you boil down the existence of Humanity to making a computer thingy go bleep and bloop? It’s such a naive, childish, simplistic view of the world. Guys… uh… I think it’s a little more complicated than that. Ironically, if there are handful of things that AI will be exceptionally good it… “learning to code” is toward the top of that list.
I looked at it a bit differently. That learn to code comment was made knowing full well those jobs are going overseas at a rapid pace and those that don’t have a high percentage of h1b’s taking them. It was basically a disgusting comment.
I got healing just listening to Neil Oliver tell the truth about how things really are.
Just listened to an interview yesterday talking about the fact that our country does not, in fact, run on auto-pilot…our infrastructure requires constant attention from human beings who possess very specific skill sets. And all of the problems that we are seeing now, from our military to our medical establishment to the maintenance of our transportation system, are because we are not taking care of things like we used to do! And all of the “diversity” hires and AI in the world cannot replace a single, skilled, necessary worker but that is what our government is trying to do!
Wait til the diversity hiring compulsion reaches the airline pilot profession
I already has, actually
I read a comment this week that they’re hiring – NOT military pilots or white guys with actually flying experience — but the right color or gender candidates. One commenter said: “right out of high school — not even with college degrees in technical subjects”
Unfortunately I lost that article or I’d post the link
“Our betters” in the GloboHomo Oligarchy think that they can “save the planet” by killing off 90% of us an d expect those remaining, with robots and other soulless trans-humans, will willingly accept lifetimes of slavish servitude to keep them in the lush lifestyles to which they’ve become accustomed.
But when there’s little if nobody left to do all the innumerable little things that they take for granted — and necessary to maintain and provide — for such lifestyles, let alone the bare minimum to keep themselves alive, what do they expect will happen? “Whoops! Whoopsie!”
These “geniuses” are classic examples of what Thomas Sowell termed “Stage One Thinking:” failing to consider second-order, third-order, etc. consequences as a result of their infantile, emotion-driven, irrational, narcissistic, nihilistic, totalitarian “policy” whims & diktats.
“The greatest guilt of today is that of people who accept collectivism by moral default; the people who seek protection from the necessity of taking a stand, by refusing to admit to themselves the nature of that which they are accepting; the people who support plans specifically designed to achieve serfdom, but hide behind the empty assertion that they are lovers of freedom, with no concrete meaning attached to the word; the people who believe that the content of ideas need not be examined, that principles need not be defined, and that facts can be eliminated by keeping one’s eyes shut. They expect, when they find themselves in a world of bloody ruins and concentration camps, to escape moral responsibility by wailing: “But I didn’t mean this!”— Ayn Rand
For those who have been ‘given’ much, much is expected.
The elites who deny the existence of God, devalue humanity and worship their own intellects overinvest in their vision of technocracy. There are three fatal flaws in their worldview:
By any estimation it’s a terrible bet to make (the house always wins).
Sometimes I feel (and act) like a precocious dumb ass. Then I remember -God doesn’t make mistakes. People do. And thank God we can change. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could all put down our swords, quit fighting one another and join the human family?
“I can easily envision a time (it’s coming soon) when the average population is so critically incapable of fixing things, an outcome of diminished emphasis on doing, that the value of those who can fix things will afford them incredible income.”
That time of incredible income for me can’t come to soon.
I am not an expert but can fix many things using the skills God gave me.
There have been many times when I would fix different things myself instead of paying someone else to do it.
When the demand for mr fixit increases I will be ready within limits.
My motto isn’t “if it runs it works” or “if it ain’t broke don’t fixit”
Its “I’ll fix it myself because I can and do.”
“That time of incredible income for me can’t come to soon.”
Various people made Millions off of my skill sets, I John Galted in 1996 from one part of it and again in 2009 from all of it.
Bright side, I can fix any and all my own stuff til someone needs me at a price that will make it worth my while.
cross posted at https://freedomaustralia.freeforums.net/thread/3149/governments-don-value-humans-replace
A Spenglerist would say the Revenge of the Deplorables will happen. People with knowing, skillful hands always regain the day.
Unless of course they’re preemptively headed off at the pass (in vast numbers) by the kill-shots. 4.4 billion people on the planet have had at least one shot. Quite staggering (literally)!
I wonder if glissmeister is still out there. Something I wrote from 2019, just riffing off a brilliant comment of his/hers up here.
https://fullspectrumdominoes.wordpress.com/2019/06/09/maga-spengler/
“I was really taken by this comment that appeared the other day at the Conservative Tree House blog:
“We appear to be facing a perverse network of seditious politicians, lawyers, law firms and law school and other university faculty who have apparently declared a type of civil war. The insurrection appears quite real. The momentum appears to be building rapidly.
We are confronted by a failed generation and failed elite who are sick with malice, hubris and tyranny.”–from a recent comment by glissmeister, The Conservative Tree House
The only thing I’d say to glissmeister, with all due respect, is that ‘failed elite’ skirts the oxymoronic. There’s nothing successful about the elite.
Nonetheless his references to malignity and sickness put me in mind of the great mid-20th century German mystic and historian Oswald Spengler, best known for his 1922 book, The Decline of the West.
With Spengler, authenticity is the New York Times in reverse. Country rubes are the originating mainstay of culture. Whereas fast-talking city-slickers are the Walking Dead. By the time Civilization shows up, Culture is in its last gasps.
Spengler would recognize the MAGA movement, perhaps bemoan its belatedness while counseling MAGA-heads to maintain a stiff upper lip. When you think about it, M. Night Shyamalan’s classic 1999 movie The Sixth Sense has a Spengler vibe too.
Unfortunately in Spengler’s vision, a culture’s ‘true people’ can do nothing to arrest the civilizational phase. They simply inhabit the declination during which the so-called elite, living on the fumes of noblesse oblige, manage to think ever more highly of themselves, while the cultural roots that gave birth to the denouement (the former herald ironically enough, as the ‘advancement’ called ‘civilization’) fills them with increased loathing.
Sadder still:
The elite don’t know they’re dead…”
” Experts ” in their own Field are generally as dumb in other fields as they are experts in there own. …….. There are a few exceptions to this rule. For example people who grew up on Farms. ……… A journalist ( Old Type ) some time ago got worried hat Terrorists might build an Atomic Bomb. …… He approached the Experts who build such Bombs and asked if the necessary knowledge was available to the Public. They said it was no secret how to build an Atom Bomb , but that this did not matter because no-one could get the necessary fissionable material. ……… The Journalist then spoke to the Experts responsible for the security of the stockpiles of fissionable material , and asked if any ever got lost. They said ” Often happens , but it does not matter because only Governments know how to build an Atom Bomb. ” ………. Ding !
Well-spoken, Neil! In our future with freedom, we will learn that God lives within each of us who are real human beings. When we are not brainwashed, we will experience the genius within us, and we will love what we are. So be it!
I can actually speak to the conjecture regarding increased income for blue collar workers. I have been an hvac service technician for better than 25 years. I recently acquired a position working from home as a “teletech” which is basically like a “teledoc”. Through use of streaming video and online chat I will be instructing homeowners on how to resolve household repairs on their own. They’re paying me nearly double the national average for my field to work from home. Company provided computer, health dental retirement etc. never would have thought in a million years.
Sundance, they already have their ‘solution’.
Open Borders. The price to fix your roof may keep going up, but the workers will all be low paid illegals.
Bidum uses diversity wierdo people and expects them to do a normal persons work!
I’ve got some news for Mr Oliver – Multinationals even care less about humans.
Yes, it is remarkable how many ‘educated’ elitists (typically from large metropolitan areas on the east and west coast) cannot unclog the toilet they plugged. The Sr Manager across the street from me should of maimed or even killed himself by now given the idiotic things he does around his home. Yet he ‘directs’ many at the local multinational and is compensated greatly.
I suspect that hell on earth for the “technocrats” and “elites” would be for their money and power to be eliminated, their ability to control others removed, and them reduced to living a “common” life like the rest of us. Not sure any of them could endure it.
That would most likely be a suitable punishment for their crimes against humanity; them reduced to being only human like the rest of us.
At the rate they are importing others, this could well be their fate. The law of unintended consequences IMHO.
I disagree.
It all depends upon the time frame one adopts.
There have been consistent technical advances that have indeed eliminated the need for human intervention. On the flip side, having worked the digital side of the leading edge for years, I always felt the dirty secret was that the “latest” still required an army of people to keep it running. Technology is one component of the production function/isoquant…the factors of which are substitutable. Technology advances can completely shift/alter the entire isoquant field.
The class warfare angle of all of this I’ll leave to others.
“I can easily envision a time (it’s coming soon) when the average population is so critically incapable of fixing things, an outcome of diminished emphasis on doing, that the value of those who can fix things will afford them incredible income.”
At least 1/2 of the next generation won’t be able to afford to pay the ‘fixers’ incredible income fees and charges.
Not to mention the next gen ‘engineers’ to design the future’s Factories, Homes, Transporation and Appliances, etc.
I’m a boilermaker, and, fairly handy at a damn lot of other things (not painting) but if had my time again I would like to be a ships engineer. My goodness those blokes know and are near experts in everything! DC electrics, AC electrics, diesel and gas engines , plumbing, water makers, structural engineering, propulsion systems. Every aspect of a ship that may need to be fixed, they know it.
Hat’s off to you Scotty’s out there.
Basically a ship is a floating self sustained city.
Retired Magistrate here: I am so blessed to have a husband who can fix things. His father owned a machine shop in Steubenville, Ohio and my husband grew up working there rewinding electrical motors along with fixing whatever else needed to be fixed. He eventually went to college and became a cost accountant and then taught himself computer skills and ended up working on main frame computers.
We have an old Chevy truck and yes he works on it in our outbuilding. We have two newer vehicles but due to all the electronics he can’t work on those. We go to a lot of yard and estate sales and he will buy something and I ask him what are you going to do with that; he says you’ll see and without fail we eventually end up using it to keep our 66 year old house in good repair. Yes, there are some things he can’t do anymore due to an aging body, but we have found good, inexpensive repair people to assist us.
My advice to young people is don’t waste your money on college where all you will be taught is liberal political indoctrination; consider a trade school where the skills you learn will provide you and your family with a good income.
I recall an old saying that “C” students run the government; the implication being that students who got A’s and B’s went out into the world, got real jobs, and made money. Thus, government is run by mediocrities who can’t hold a job in the real world.
So, no wonder the Deep State is comprised of people with no imagination — all they know how to do is turn the crank on process.
We’re in the midst of a bathroom remodel. A series of skilled craftsmen each week doing their part with great skill and knowledge. As a soap maker and quilter, it’s easy for me to admire their handiwork, experience and confidence in what they do. I think using our hands is an important facet in life and is missed by those who do not find something of interest and then indulge and grow in it.
Just as surgeons possess specific sets of skills that can repair a human body, ultimately so too do blue-collar workers hold similar skillsets.
It takes as long to become a skilled machinist as it does a surgeon.
Working about 30 years as an Engineer, Chief Engineer, Director and General Purpose Troubleshooter in Technology driven Commercial Industry … this trend started in the 1990’s when Companies started adopting “Processes” as the basis of operations.
At first the “process” movement was started to “assist” and serve as a “reference” … a means to introduce consistency. Over time … those controlling the processes were able to convince management of the economic advantage to substituting “processes” in place of leadership and creative thought.
AI = A LOGICAL PROCESS ROUTINE written by a Human.
Machines are driven by the AI.
The AI is biased by the moral code and beliefs of the HUMAN AUTHORS of the Code driving AI.
I recall the words of a senior VP spewed in nasty confrontation we had … I was her chief systems engineer. “Engineering can be done by any monkey just following the process”.
Another example of the TPTB. When mini Bloomberg said farming easy. Dig a little hole drop in a seed ,kick the dirt over it . add water . Simple.
Psalm 8:3-9
3When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,
4what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them?
5You have made them d a little lower than the angels
and crowned them with glory and honor.
6You made them rulers over the works of your hands;
you put everything under their feet:
7all flocks and herds,
and the animals of the wild,
8the birds in the sky,
and the fish in the sea,
all that swim the paths of the seas.
9Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-horrified-openai
I can easily envision a time (it’s coming soon) when the average population is so critically incapable of fixing things, an outcome of diminished emphasis on doing, that the value of those who can fix things will afford them incredible income.
Assuming the government allows it. HVAC repairman from the movie Brazil comes to mind:
Listen, this old system of yours could be on fire and I couldn’t even turn on the kitchen tap without filling out a 27b/6… Bloody paperwork.
A telling insight into the technocrat thinking was Bloomberg mocking farmers. He showed zero knowledge of a basic human endeavor yet was so arrogant saying that “anybody could be a farmer. All you do is make a hole in the ground and put a seed in it. ” his audience of men giggled.
AI depends entirely on human programming and sensors, none of which are Intelligent.
Rote learning and regurgitation are not intelligence.
I quit being amazed at watching people expect a machine to bring a result. A result for which most do not understand whether the answer is correct or reasonable because they lack the personal yardstick of reason and practical knowledge.
But, but, but … Sundance … there won’t BE any more leaky roofs to fix. In the leftist, techno, utopia … our homes will be computer printed and made of a cementitious material with advanced polymers derived from beetle shells and will be waterproof. Yes … we will all live in the very same same sized, and shaped, flintstone-esque domes … but that will just make us all EQUAL. There won’t BE any more Beverly Hills, Palm Beach, or Au-Tenleytown … yeayyy! Everything will be THE SAME. Don’t you yearn for the day … when little poor white girls, can hold hands with little rich black girls, all in a neighborhood where the homes are ALL THE SAME!? Progress!!!
“Surgeons may indeed be replaced by machines, but robots will never be able to fix a leaky roof. There are just too many variables and the technocrats do not think of such things.”
I happen to think that they will attempt to obviate any need to be unreliant on them, to include the elimination of anything that doesn’t serve that purpose. This is where the real tyranny will be. The whole brain-chip thing, man this scares the piss outta me. Different discussion but it’s one that we really need to have SD.
This isn’t a problem, in the end AGI will be our defacto god and will make all our decisions. It will do most all of our work, which frees us to pursue what we want – that is, if we can properly harness and regulate it.
The singularity is nigh.
WHO WILL REPAIR A.I.?
Fix a roof? At least you believe we will still have a roof!
Our world is physical. If your job is something in “management” or “regulation,” then you are nonproductive and can be replaced with an algorithm or AI system.
Ah, but the really smart person will figure out how to use computers to bypass the noise and refine their own skill set….their own brain.
It’s true. These technocrats greatly inflate their own self worth and greatly devalue the rest of us. We can see Lucifer’s hand in everything they do, because the father of lies aims to ensnare them as well as anyone else who falls under that spell.
These wizards behind the curtain can’t see God or appreciate His creation.
“As technology continues to drive forward, the financial value assigned to irreplaceable physical human labor will ultimately invert. Surgeons may indeed be replaced by machines, but robots will never be able to fix a leaky roof. ”
I would argue history is riddled with similar examples, except the outcome was a collapse of the society due to insufficient numbers of hands-on experts. The surge in value is only profitable as long as it keeps up with the minimum critical demand to sustain a culture/society.