It used to be about the only thing you had going for you if you didn't have the political connections of wealth was the ability to become an expert through extr

It used to be about the only thing you had going for you if you didn't have the political connections of wealth was the ability to become an expert through extreme effort to acquire cloistered information. This is also certainly a contributing factor to the flatline of median incomes for 40 years in the US - among the dozen other influencers including globalism, automation, deregulation, deunionization, etc. But we, as the labor class, are in a constant ongoing rat race to the bottom. The endgame is near total automation of production, near total availability of expertise on demand, and total capture of all resources by those own the robots. And this isn't like any other time - an able bodied man in any age before this one had intrinsic value to their community. They could be taken advantage of and thus provided for. We are going to see billions who cannot contribute meaningfully to economics. And I do not think those leading the charge towards automation are all that interested in seeing quarterlies dip to reduce suffering in the world.