Preparing the Economy for AI | Robert Reich | Talks at Google 

It is nice of them.

Interesting hearing Robert Reich speak. This man is on the money about what is wrong with not simply America but in many places in the world.

yea, its good that theyre letting thier plans known so we can counteract them in advance

@@Ghryst false hope...

@@Ghryst thank you. One sane comment here. I cannot believe people but this dribble. They want to enslave us.

^ This!

yeah con masters usually have that effect on some people with weaker analytical abilities

Don't that the bait from these trolls, they're here only to get a rise from you. That's their payoff nothing more, not worth your effort. I find them soooo funny LMAO

+Cheryl Fontaine jew sycophant...for ever

Nordic Contempt should go to Nazi hell Valhalla.

Let your chains rest lightly.

how thoughtful of you to weave in some micro put-downs with your seeming compliment. *edit: then you have the balls to tell the rest of us how to think? You seem like an authoritarian in the making. See: "Hijackal" by Dr. R Shaler.

He was the one who caused this by opening our borders and oversupplying the labor force with millions of cheap foreign workers. We've fallen this far because of his policies. Oversupply something, the price plummets - that includes wages.

He was always a corrupt asshole -- how thick are you??????????

@@tenminutetokyo2643 not true. The migrants mostly take jobs that American workers do not want such as fast food, motel services, etc)

@@sandybayes And software engineering. Have you seen Silicon Valley? It's occupied by them.

@@tenminutetokyo2643 in Canada the immigrants take job entry jobs too . They have to work hard to move up. What are the requirements for immigrants to work in the USA? But the important part is that these workers will pay for old age security.

I was thinking the same thing.

Hopefully not the most;)

The odd things we notice.

Indeed, no doubt one of the good around.

lol i dont think he even had coffee he just wanted to do something with his hands

it's merely a prop to endear himself to the others in the room that had just finished theirs prior to the show

i hope you paid the same amuont of attention to what he was saying:D

Goran Balen multitasking my friend 😏

There is no cup

Andrew Yang should be able to run without big money . It's crazy . I think they intentionally won't let us have the players who would do good. We have to get corporate money out of politics.

Dan Dascalescu. So tell us the question !

Graham Ashton - UK "What have been the biggest criticisms of UBI that you have encountered"?

Dan Dascalescu. Thank you.

Yang rocks!!!

Tomato Man that's why minimum income alone isn't valid, it needs the market to be properly regulated, and competitive. Plus more cooperative style citizen ownership too

A minimum income like raising the minimum wage causes inflation and reduces jobs.

Education is too expensive now.

I do not think that amount of paid work (30 hrs) will b created. 2 things here. Job creation and basic survival. Ubi takes care of the basics. Job creation will take some time. I agree witbh you in principle. If there are 100 living wage jobs and 200 people looking for living wage jobs then the jobs could be split and the pay doubled to create 200 living wage jobs. Estimates are that we will lose 50% jobs. I thi k it will be more.

Unless we earn, we cannot buy. Google connects buyers to sellers. Soon enough we will not buy even if we have more info. Soon enough there will be no buyers.

Bring the bottom most denominator to the highest denominator. Find ways of adding value to the lowest class of workers and that involves better opportunities to better themselves. This is where most of Europe has us badly beaten. Invest in your people when they are unemployed to keep that tax base from shrinking and taxing individuals to the point they have no disposable income to enjoy life with. This works in countries that already have the highest income taxes on the planet like most Scandinavian countries. When recessions strike, the Scandinavian countries weathered the worst while others were suffering and their economies were firing on all cylinders at all levels.

As many critics have pointed out, the Scandinavian countries have a number of advantages such as small size, homoenous populations, a solid energy base etc. But I don't take that as criticisms - I see Scandinavia as a microcosm of what is possible that just needs to be scaled up. I don't see any fundamental obstacles that could prevent us from becoming like them.

Humanity Forward - Andrew Yang

He runs his own channel called robert reich (should be easy enough to find but I'm on mobile). He's given most of his support to Bernie and warren (I believe he and warren are personal friends and worked together as university professors but I could be mistaken). I'm not sure if he changed his views, likes UBI but not as proposed by Yang, thinks UBI will be necessary in the future but not yet, or if he just thinks Bernie and Warren have better policies overall. I think UBI is a good idea but difficult to implement, though it will be needed eventually. The basic idea is a great response to automation and, since automation could effectively mean the end of the vast majority of jobs of all types (but particularly unskilled labor), is going to be necessary in the next few decades. The problem is that UBI, even if funded exclusively by rich or corporations, would be fairly easy for corporations and the rich to effectively undo. All that corporations or the rich would need to do is increase their prices, particularly on vital products and services (such as home and auto prices, auto insurance, utilities, and other essentials), to put the money in their pockets. It may redirect the money from one industry to another but, without price controls and other efforts to make sure it's meaningfully implemented, it wouldn't be difficult for UBI to be coopted into just going to specific corporations rather than the average person it was meant for. Also, conservatives could, and I believe already have begun to, make the argument that any and all forms of welfare are unnecessary with UBI and that just isn't true (certainly not without full Medicare for all at the very least). Maybe Reich heard similar arguments to mine and agreed with them? I can't say but he's barely spoken on Yang from my experience.

Yeah you are right samsonian.. how are you doing?

Edward Siegel unfortunately there is no such thing as job guarantee. Technology is guaranteed to advance to a point where every job is automated and scarcity is no longer an issue. Scarcity is the undisputed, primary economic driver.

There is plenty for humans to do in the human dimension to enhance society and quality of life. It only take a little imagination. Also, since production is in the hands of capitalists, not government, what is the incentive for capitalists to bring us a post scarcity world? As you say, "Scarcity is the undisputed, primary economic driver." And profit is the undisputed, primary economic motivator.

They want to know what the problem is, they just need to look, instead they guess, but do not have a clue.

Timothy Dingman so you see education as an entitlement? no one can deprive you from that which you are entitled.

I see education as a constitutional mandate. In New Jersey, it is part of the State constitution. I see Education as a Human Right. This is something that the "State" owes to the People.

It would be irrelevant, the S&P500 is in charge. Presidents are the illusion of choice, corporatocracy.

Anon: "Presidents are the illusion of choice..." A conspiracy theory. Gosh, that's so original!

^ Calling things a conspiracy theory. Gosh, that's so original!

Anyone with basic analytical abilities knows your democracy is gone, failed state dumb fuck.

@Anon: "..." Lay off the recreational drugs, take your anti-psychotic meds and don't breed, Cletus. You're welcome!

Yeah, we will never reach equilibrium point.

Hello Jana, how are you doing?

The conservatives have some cancerous economic ideas that are not factualy xorrect, a lotta dems do too but most dems don’t know about the economy at all, both need to hear ppl like this

Would you accept encouragement from a retired mechanical engineer? I remember my first high school math classes having about a third of girls, then dwindling in female representation as the classes advanced. There's been a social stigma about women in STEM, which is an anachronism & throwback to the past. Some of the best math students I noted were girls, but they withered away as they approached graduation. Yup, it is SHAMEFUL! As a father, I encouraged my son & daughter to follow their interests as individuals regardless of what others thought. Seeing them now as adults, I know they held true to that idea. My daughter has a maths degree, a microbiology degree, and a career as a consultant who make a half-million bucks per year! More important; she's happy! As an engineer who worked with dozens of other engineers & nearly as many scientists, I can assure you that those professions contain too few women, especially in engineering. The talent I saw in high school is not reflected in the adult workforce. I'm sure that many of my colleagues would prefer more women in STEM professions! Going against the flow is only a temporary condition. The few female engineers & scientists I worked with were well-accepted as peers. You mention that you're happy with your life as a photographer. A large part of my early career was so dominated by photography that I could have been considered a professional photographer. You likely noticed that photography has a distinctly mathematical nature. My own interest led me to understanding the optics involved from the standpoints of geometry, algebra & radiometry; my studies along those lines led me into doing opto-mechanical designs in my work as an engineer. Mathematics comes alive when a person applies it! Your early excellence in math likely means it's very interesting to you, so I'd advise you to study your cameras, optics & imaging very closely from a mathematical standpoint; this can lead you into re-evaluating where you might go from where you are now. Education is what the student does, much more than what the teachers, counselors or peers do. You can go to college and/or study on your own because you are ultimately your own teacher if you're curious & exploratory. The Internet is a fantastic tool for researching what you're interested in, so just start digging around about cameras & various forms of optics & imaging using a good search-engine. You might just re-ignite a passion for math as you learn about those very deep subjects through how mathematics is applied! Expect your career to be an experience of growth without stigma, whether from others or yourself. You have the opportunity to use your present career as a stepping-stone to becoming an excellent photographer or something where your innate talent in mathematics gets a good work-out! It's up to you to set yourself free. For what it's worth, professions in optics or that use some optics are in high & growing demand in tech industries. As an engineer, my optics experience was a huge plus on my resume'. Photography was my gateway.

Brandin Shaeffer I know how you feel.

Brandin Shaeffer II could not be in more agreement with you. Perhaps your life would be different, maybe better, maybe not. No one can really be sure. I had no formal counseling sessions in high school. I went on to college because I couldn’t think of anything else to do at that time, plus I had a good amount of trepidation about my place in the world. So I went to university and majored in theatre then changed to English lit. I filled in my time with science courses and then pre-med. I went on to medical school finishing out as a neurologist, I practiced in this field for 25 years before becoming disabled due to Parkinson’s disease (oh, the irony)). Now I’m trying to do photography because it is something I learned in high school and I’ve always enjoyed. So who knows, I followed my path, the one I chose. Perhaps your disgust is misplaced, you followed the path you chose. I’m sure you’re very talented and quite proficient in your field, otherwise you probably would be doing else. As long as you’re satisfied with what you’ve done and how you have lived your life as a human being is all that matters. Be happy.

How much do they want? They already own half the planet.

Really? Improving peoples lives comes from a democratic system that allows for the creation or updating of laws, policies and elections that make those entities that want to control that process to disappear.

except he supports the MSM

He's a corporate-left puppet.

That is what I see also. Once we are no longer needed, man made viruses will be unleashed on the people for population control.

@@davidkaser7423 if we let them get away with it we are building our own cages. Guaranteed basic income will be our chains. Where is the desire to remain human? I don’t understand how so few are horrified by this talk. Technology is great but we must remain in control of our destiny.

Mike Gaffney Please elaborate. Is the complexity of such policies the problem like the current tax code, or is it a positive millstone towards middle-class protection like social security and Medicare?

it's a rule: if you're at google, you have to have a cup in your hand...

Enjoy Reich's cheap foreign labor then, which is driving down wages.

Its hard to believe that in 5 years no one has responded to your comment. I loved much of it and want to hear more of your ideas. I am not a politician and would like that term to go away along with parties, lobbyists, greed, and much more. I am studying to reform government in a way fair to majority and minorities alike. I want to hear more from you.

RU-vid is deliberately denying google through manipulating the algorithm. Totally joking. I have no idea really.

I think that truth comes not from others via any medium but from oneself.

+William Peterson the internet is used as "confirmation bias" after someone make a decision as to what is true. the vast majority of people are not intelligent enough to look at the raw data and make a decision about what is true it has to be interpreted and spoon fed to their emotional leanings. the internet does this very effectively.

This is the most fantastic way I've ever seen this summed up. Thank you.

It's called postmodernism.

Don't blame the internet because people are gullible.

Bernie spent 29 years in the Senate on his own as a loaner and didn't build -- or contribute -- into a party which he could rely on in the legislature. The presidency isn't a monarchy -- without a legislature which actually writes the laws, nothing gets done. In 29 years Bernie saw only TWO of his sponsored (not counting co-sponsored where we only lent his name) bills become law. TWO. Hillary in her 8 years saw THREE of her bills become law. He's all rhetoric, no action.

You are delusional. Reich shilled for Hillary, and CANNOT BE TRUSTED.

Both weak idiots. AI already took over, they are called corporations.

lohphat : I am SO GLAD YOU SAID THAT.

Think Floyd www.politifact.com/personalities/hillary-clinton/statements/byruling/false/