Uh oh. Looks like men are becoming redundant even more quickly than I had predicted, according to the latest predictions about technological unemployment. According to the White House, who keep in mind would typically want to paint a rosier picture than is actually the case, if you make less than $20/hour today, there is an 83% chance that robotics/automation will eventually take your job. And if you make between $20-40/hour, there is a roughly 31% chance that you will lose your job to technology in the future, which drops to negligible levels for those making over $40/hour. And whether enough new jobs will be created in the meantime to offset such job losses still remains to be seen.
Of course, those figures are for people of both genders. But there is good reason to believe that things will be significantly worse for men in that regard, since Women are leaving men in the dust in terms of educational attainment and are thus more likely to get the best jobs of the future. That is especially true for higher-paying and higher-skilled jobs, but also true for any jobs that can't be outsourced or automated and don't require much brute muscle power. And as the general pace of life continues to accelerate, more and more multitasking (which men aren't exactly known for) and speed will be required in nearly all jobs. Thus if technology doesn't take your job, Women eventually will, fellas. And when the next big economic crash happens, it will likely be you who needs to be rescued by the better half of humanity.
So how does knowing that make you feel, fellas? If your answer is "like I want to worship Women even more, and help them take over", you're basically golden. Otherwise, now is the time to do some serious soul-searching, because in the not-too-distant future (sooner than you think) there will be "no country for burly men". And remember, as the saying goes, "don't be a fool, stay in school"--even if that is no longer a guarantee of anything anymore. Failing that, I suppose you can always go join the circus, lol.
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Saturday, February 13, 2016
The Drone Problem
No, not that drone problem (i.e. the use of unmanned airplanes in today's warfare). The other drone problem, namely, what to do with all of the unemployed or underemployed men of the future?
I recently posted an article about the coming crash of 2016, and how men would likely be hit so hard by it that they will never fully recover, and will be begging Women for a bailout (and will thus surrender sooner than otherwise). Even if there is no crash in 2016, the long-term trends are clear enough as evident in even the most cursory look at the statistics. We can all see the writing on the wall. Women are rising, while men are falling. In fact, women have already crossed the Rubicon in terms of education and are well on their way to becoming the richer gender, meanwhile us fellas are falling away and falling apart. We are being gradually replaced by both women (for higher-skilled jobs) as well as robots/machines/AI (for less-skilled jobs), our wages have been falling, our once-great labor unions have been torpedoed by the powerful men at the top who threw the bottom 80-90% of us under the bus, and we are thus are becoming increasingly redundant.
So what should be done with all of the redundant drone males after Women finally take over? Ultimately, it will be up to the Women of the future, of course, but now is the time to start discussing the best course of action to take in both the near- and long-term. Currently, we are witnessing the death of an obsolete system, one that has been kept on life support for many years now, and sooner or later we will have to pull the plug on it. Continuing to prop up that woefully moribund system in the hopes of propping up men is clearly not a sustainable long-term solution. And while men are slowly going extinct due to deterioration of the Y-chromosome, that will take thousands of years to occur. So what to do from now until then?
While I can immediately think of several unethical solutions to the drone problem (which I will not repeat here), the challenge is to come up with an ethical-yet-effective solution. My theory is still a work in progress, but what I have so far is as follows. We should adopt as much of the progressive libertarian TSAP platform as possible, or at least the following measures. First, a Universal Basic Income Guarantee for all is an idea that is LONG overdue. We also need to pass the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act, as well as raise the minimum wage. And as for those drones who would theoretically get priced out of the job market, well they can go join the circus. Free the animals and replace them with men--and I am only half-joking about that one. (We will need to have plenty of "bread and circuses" in the future to keep the drones occupied while they party their way into extinction.) Additionally, we need to invest more in both infrastructure and education, and that would create many jobs. But ultimately, there will be a lot fewer jobs in the future, and we need to be prepared for that. As the late, great Buckminster Fuller famously said in 1970:
And keep in mind that he was also a huge advocate of Women taking over the world as well. He also noted that there are enough resources in the world for everyone to live like a millionaire, but that those resources are being hoarded and wasted by the oligarchs. And when Women do take over, they will likely reject the outdated notion of scarcity and create a new paradigm of abundance for all. Which is especially good for the drone problem since there are two scenarios in which men become especially dangerous creatures: 1) when they have too much power relative to Women, and 2) when they are desperate for money--ever see the movie Fargo, for example? Both scenarios occur all too often under patriarchy, and and both issues would be effectively solved by Matriarchy, that we may all be free to enjoy mutual benefit and protection. What better time than now?
I recently posted an article about the coming crash of 2016, and how men would likely be hit so hard by it that they will never fully recover, and will be begging Women for a bailout (and will thus surrender sooner than otherwise). Even if there is no crash in 2016, the long-term trends are clear enough as evident in even the most cursory look at the statistics. We can all see the writing on the wall. Women are rising, while men are falling. In fact, women have already crossed the Rubicon in terms of education and are well on their way to becoming the richer gender, meanwhile us fellas are falling away and falling apart. We are being gradually replaced by both women (for higher-skilled jobs) as well as robots/machines/AI (for less-skilled jobs), our wages have been falling, our once-great labor unions have been torpedoed by the powerful men at the top who threw the bottom 80-90% of us under the bus, and we are thus are becoming increasingly redundant.
So what should be done with all of the redundant drone males after Women finally take over? Ultimately, it will be up to the Women of the future, of course, but now is the time to start discussing the best course of action to take in both the near- and long-term. Currently, we are witnessing the death of an obsolete system, one that has been kept on life support for many years now, and sooner or later we will have to pull the plug on it. Continuing to prop up that woefully moribund system in the hopes of propping up men is clearly not a sustainable long-term solution. And while men are slowly going extinct due to deterioration of the Y-chromosome, that will take thousands of years to occur. So what to do from now until then?
While I can immediately think of several unethical solutions to the drone problem (which I will not repeat here), the challenge is to come up with an ethical-yet-effective solution. My theory is still a work in progress, but what I have so far is as follows. We should adopt as much of the progressive libertarian TSAP platform as possible, or at least the following measures. First, a Universal Basic Income Guarantee for all is an idea that is LONG overdue. We also need to pass the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act, as well as raise the minimum wage. And as for those drones who would theoretically get priced out of the job market, well they can go join the circus. Free the animals and replace them with men--and I am only half-joking about that one. (We will need to have plenty of "bread and circuses" in the future to keep the drones occupied while they party their way into extinction.) Additionally, we need to invest more in both infrastructure and education, and that would create many jobs. But ultimately, there will be a lot fewer jobs in the future, and we need to be prepared for that. As the late, great Buckminster Fuller famously said in 1970:
We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
And keep in mind that he was also a huge advocate of Women taking over the world as well. He also noted that there are enough resources in the world for everyone to live like a millionaire, but that those resources are being hoarded and wasted by the oligarchs. And when Women do take over, they will likely reject the outdated notion of scarcity and create a new paradigm of abundance for all. Which is especially good for the drone problem since there are two scenarios in which men become especially dangerous creatures: 1) when they have too much power relative to Women, and 2) when they are desperate for money--ever see the movie Fargo, for example? Both scenarios occur all too often under patriarchy, and and both issues would be effectively solved by Matriarchy, that we may all be free to enjoy mutual benefit and protection. What better time than now?
Friday, February 5, 2016
Another Must-See Video
I recently came across another YouTube video, this one about the things that we can all do more of to help accelerate the already-inevitable transition to Matriarchy. The sooner that Women take over, the better it will be for everyone. Food for thought indeed:
Also be sure to view the other videos linked to this one on YouTube as well. VIVE LA FEMME!
Also be sure to view the other videos linked to this one on YouTube as well. VIVE LA FEMME!
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