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Trump policy has made the paperwork requirement of welfare much higher, leading to people who qualify to not get the benefits. It’s more difficult to be poor under Trump policies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQqwOpzMBNU
Long-term military containment with ships escorting oil tankers through the Strait may be the best among bad options. Future congresses and presidents would need to maintain it though, and it would be expensive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT6h3-2HZ6k
The government is not a business. Trying to run it as a business doesn’t work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj0xRpWIqE4
Trump is damaging America’s future wealth, health, and security by deeply damaging American science. Science research needs broad investments in things that may not be productive for decades to come. That often requires an investor not worried about quarterly returns. The US used to drain scientists from the world. Now, our scientists are being picked by other countries, weakening the United States.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYiUI6y1nKg
Construction companies crushed unions, and then hired immigrants instead. Now, the construction industry is dependent on illegal immigrants. Without them, the US won’t build the houses the country needs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9w2BQ5gLVQ
Google let an employee walk who left because Google didn’t value his AI chatbot technology. Google later had to hire him back and make him a billionaire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_s6f5P8Ggw
Iran expert who used to advise the White House thinks Iran was willing to do a deal that was better than Obama’s deal before the 12 day war, but not anymore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qq9nYWH24w
Apartheid in Palestine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsVDPzJzc98
“”The main question we wanted to understand is who’s going to be left to buy products if everyone gets automated and replaced by a robot?” Tsoukalas, a senior fellow at Wharton, told journalist Katty Kay on the New Normal podcast that was posted on Monday.
The paper describes a classic economic dilemma: A single company may recognize that laying off too many workers reduces demand for its products, but in a competitive market, every company has an incentive to automate, because failing to do so risks losing to rivals.”
https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/ai-could-trigger-layoff-trap-081101725.html