Automation is Slavery

The Freedom Dividend. Andrew Yang’s idea of a Freedom Dividend and the motivation behind why such a dividend is needed comes close to highlighting an endemic issue that exists for as long as humans have been alive. Andrew believes that a dividend is needed due to automation eventually replacing people. However, I do not believe that this is a proper…

Where are all the good engineers?

Or: The 20 Percent Paradox. The Pareto principle states that: [F]or many outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of the causes (the “vital few”). Other names for this principle are the 80/20 rule, the law of the vital few, or the principle of factor sparsity. - Wiki This principle is observed in various different fields and aspects of…