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The White Working Class Will Come for Silicon Valley Next

Alex3917 10y ago
Suicide rates are going to spike even more after self-driving cars become common. Not only because a lot more Americans will be unemployed, but also a lot of people whose deaths are currently ruled as car accidents are going to instead be forced to commit suicide in ways that have less plausible deniability.
- shams93 10y ago
  That's true but you will reach a breaking point, like what happened in 1992 in the la riots, but this time the working class will spontaneously loot and burn the entire country. The LA Riots hit so fast and hard and spontaneously there was no way for the powers to be to prepare. After a couple of weeks the troops came in and started using machine guns on local people, that shut it down. My prediction is that Trump will drop a nuclear weapon on one or more major US cities to put down a rebellion. No one else has his level of mental instability, not even Bush would do that but I would be not at all suprised to see Trump drop a nuclear weapon on a major US city.
jdhopeunique 10y ago
It seems like these articles about AI taking away jobs is just a distraction from the real wage depression caused by temporary work visas, illegal immigration, and workers being classified as contractors. Perhaps Silicon Valley elites wish to signal they have other options for labor as a sort of threat to combat increased scrutiny of their labor practices. Perhaps the message is: "Don't take away our cheap labor or we will release the AI overlords."
openmarmot 10y ago
this article might have been good without the race-baiting. hard to understand what "white" has to do with having a job.
chmaynard 10y ago
> The Stanford Review, Stanford’s Independent Newspaper This article is not really news, it's a speculative opinion piece and should be labeled as such. Unfortunately, we see this kind of "soft news" article every day in leading newspapers such as the NYT, so smaller publications like Stanford Review think it must be considered journalism and do the same thing.

Suicide rates are going to spike even more after self-driving cars become common. Not only because a lot more Americans will be unemployed, but also a lot of people whose deaths are currently ruled as car accidents are going to instead be forced to commit suicide in ways that have less plausible deniability.

shams93 10y ago
That's true but you will reach a breaking point, like what happened in 1992 in the la riots, but this time the working class will spontaneously loot and burn the entire country. The LA Riots hit so fast and hard and spontaneously there was no way for the powers to be to prepare. After a couple of weeks the troops came in and started using machine guns on local people, that shut it down. My prediction is that Trump will drop a nuclear weapon on one or more major US cities to put down a rebellion. No one else has his level of mental instability, not even Bush would do that but I would be not at all suprised to see Trump drop a nuclear weapon on a major US city.

jdhopeunique 10y ago

It seems like these articles about AI taking away jobs is just a distraction from the real wage depression caused by temporary work visas, illegal immigration, and workers being classified as contractors. Perhaps Silicon Valley elites wish to signal they have other options for labor as a sort of threat to combat increased scrutiny of their labor practices. Perhaps the message is: "Don't take away our cheap labor or we will release the AI overlords."

openmarmot 10y ago

this article might have been good without the race-baiting. hard to understand what "white" has to do with having a job.

chmaynard 10y ago

> The Stanford Review, Stanford’s Independent Newspaper This article is not really news, it's a speculative opinion piece and should be labeled as such. Unfortunately, we see this kind of "soft news" article every day in leading newspapers such as the NYT, so smaller publications like Stanford Review think it must be considered journalism and do the same thing.