Fuzz on the Line, Again? Steemit Glitches...steemCreated with Sketch.

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Seems our little community here is having some "issues" again...

Not sure if anyone else is experiencing this, but I have been getting an increasing number of "504 Bad Gateway" errors this evening...

Then it seemed that several comments never posted... I actually checked on them with a blockchain viewer... and then they suddenly "appeared," ten minutes later.

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Fuzz in the machine?

Taking a Break...

I think I'm going to take a brief break here to see if this settles down.

In the meantime, I have been listening to Joe Rogan interviewing aspiring U.S. Presidential candidate Andrew Yang, the core of whose platform is based on the need for Universal Basic Income. This was originally recommended to me by @meno (just giving credit where due!) and whereas it's a two-hour interview, it's really quite fascinating.

As always, I like to check the comments, as well... very interesting to see how many Republicans and Libertarians are giving this guy positive marks, even though he's running on a Democratic ticket.

It's somewhat long, but well worth a listen because it covers a lot of the reasons why we — in the US, but probably elsewhere, too — are going to be in big trouble if we don't start taking into account just how much automation is going to start taking away "regular" jobs here in this country.

And no "just retrain them" is not an adequate answer... besides, if we lose four million truck drivers to self-driving vehicles... we don't need four million more software developers! "Learn To Code" meme notwithstanding!

Hopefully this will post!

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"we don't need four million more software developers!"
No, but we do need millions and millions of high quality organic food producers. That is extremely labor intensive, and I don't want to live in a future of automated factory farms. I would rather starve than eat what they are starting to call food.

Whereas I'm inclined to agree with you — on the surface — I fear that may be a short-term fix. I expect people will turn their ingenuity towards high yield organic farming like they do in the Netherlands, unless we can persuade the world that actual "sun grown in soil" is better than automated hydroponics.

Personally? We're increasingly turning to growing our own. Which I think is cool, and I think more and more people are doing that... but it somewhat skirts the re-employment issue.

It is getting disgusting. Recently they been trying to get pink slime reclassified as ground beef. The amount of chemical garbage already in food is just scary.

Hi denmarkguy, unfortunately automation is taking jobs away from workers in Australia too.

I'm afraid there seems to be no easy solutions anywhere... people keep talking about "re-training" people, but it seems to me we have to start by re-training people in their expectations of what "work" means and can provide... and then we have to develop some very creative alternatives for income/support.

I had a lot of glitches this morning but it seems to have settled down now.

Even retraining is not quick enough.

There this one company not too far from me. Most of their workface they get are from temp agencies.

They are going through accounts and business so fast I’ve never seen someone spend more than a two months working on single account. They train people for current phone job and that account. Those that pass get in and not even two months later people get moved to a new training class. With how much training people costs and the amount of down time I still can’t work out how they make any profit. It’s just pure insanity.

don't need four million more software developers

Even if there was there are so many people who would just not be very effective or affective at it that it would be better without them even entering that field.

While I don’t like the thought of basic income system at first. I’m more than willing to admit if you removed people who frankly just don’t care and never will be engaged employee in the workplace with automation. That would be removing a lot of wasted resource and time. Now will a basic income ever be able to support that many people to pay high enough for them to at least afford the cost of living in there areas? I have a feeling there almost need to be some mass movement of population out of very high costing areas into lower ones.

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