There is no shortage of meaningful work â" only a shortage of pathways into it.
For the past few decades parents have believed the only way their children will succeed in life is to go to college, to become, in effect, knowledge workers. Well, along comes AI and starts wiping out knowledge worker jobs, so now what do we do? We're going to retrain AI-displaced college graduates to become manual labor?
ENOUGH of selling any other solution. There isnâ(TM)t one. Permanently unemployable. Solve for it, or we perish.
AKA a final solution? Seriously?
Here's an idea, we'll train them to make human food pellets, to feed the other unemployable people, and we'll introduce euthanasia to weed out the old and the sick, then we could turn them in to food pellets for the people. If the people don't like this arrangement, we can get Steam shovel and scoop up the ungrateful protesters and use them as raw material for the food pellets...
There, how about that solution?
Please consider the type of worker that will be displaced by AI, then realize that you can't retrain the workers for any job that might also be replaced by AI. The only work AI won't replace is manual labor, so what will we do, retrain office clerks to work assembly lines, enter a trade skill (electrician, plumber, HVAC tech, etc)?
Also, 1% of profits (not revenue, profit) is in almost every case a very small number/amount, few businesses generate wildly high profits, most barely break even.
"I believe that every company benefiting from automation â" which is most American companies â" should... dedicate 1 percent of its profits to help retrain the people who are being displaced." This isn't charity. It is in the best interest of these companies. If the public sees corporate profits skyrocketing while livelihoods evaporate, backlash will follow â" through regulation, taxes or outright bans on automation.
...it'd be a shame if something bad happened to it, like, say, "backlash" - you know regulations, taxes or bans, so I (Sal Khan) propose we tax your profits to retrain displaced workers!
And what will we retrain displaced workers to do? Code? Or are we going to teach them all to be plumbers, electricians, or even solar panel installers?
They are the ones that try to outlaw abortion.
Go ahead, focus on the mother's right to terminate her pregnancy and ignore the effect the mother's abortion has on the fetus.
They are the ones that try to bankrupt Wind power when it is literally the cheapest way to make electricity.
Wait, so by eliminating wind farm subsidies "the cheapest way to make electricity" becomes unviable? Perhaps it's only affordable/cheap because the subsidies hide the real cost? Perhaps?
The F350 is a tool for numerous applications (for example basing an ambulance on the F350 chassis), they aren't pleasure vehicles for the average family...
Note: I don't consider installing a level 2 charger in a house an extensive issue.
Extensive or expensive?
No one installs gas pumps at their house for their ICE vehicle, why do EV owners require their own personal Charger?
How many thousands of dollars do you think a level 2 charger installation costs? Costs range from $800-$4,000, how long does it take to recoup, say, a $1,000 charger install by driving an EV vs an ICE vehicle? A $2,000 charger? A $3,000 charger?
You know, the last administration committed over $7 billion to building out a public charging network, why would Gen Z need to live someplace special to charge their EVs?
The student loan thing is a self-inflicted injury, spurred on by people that failed to grasp the concept of "return on investment" and the impact compound interest has on student loan balances...
Weight of EVs won't make any difference on the road surfaces, the roads are generally built for the weight of the largest vehicles.
Really?
If the average weight of a vehicle on the road increases by 1,000 pounds, you're saying it won't accelerate wear and tear on the roads?
I think you have an overly-simplistic view of physics as it relates to public roadways...
Ford went (nearly) all-in on EVs and is writing off almost $20BN, you're telling me they will lose even more money focusing on ICE vehicles? Really?
In 2025, U.S. federal subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, which primarily benefit oil and gas, are estimated to be at least $34.8 billion annually in direct support.
Define "direct support" - does the U.S. treasury write $34.8BN in checks to the oil industry, or does the oil industry simply enjoy the very same business deductions that every other business in America enjoy?
Please describe the completely unique tax deductions (breaks, loopholes, whatever you want to call them) the oil industry has that other businesses don't have...
The tax revenue generated by gasoline sales is staggeringly high - the gov't actually collects more tax revenue per gallon of gas sold than the oil company per gallon profit.
Those problems disappear completely if the vehicle is inexpensive enough so that it doesn't have to be your only vehicle.
So EVs won't replace ICE, they'll join them in your personal fleet? That's not what EV advocates want...
CAFE Standards would be a good start.
Because, wait for it, the EU imposes tariffs on Chinese autos! That's why Chinese made cars cost more in the EU.
I have always viewed their hate for electric cars as just a knee-jerk reaction to their political opponents supporting them.
Wait, I'm confused - who hates EVs more, the conservatives that just won't buy one or the liberal that set them on fire?
You can tell how far we have to go, when FORTRAN is the language of supercomputers. -- Steven Feiner
