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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start your
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day, and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show. Wednesday morning,
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twentieth day of March. I'm West Thanks for joining me. Yesterday, I
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guess was the vernal equinox, making it the arrival of spring. Officially,
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normally we would associate the twentieth today as the day, but it kind of
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fluctuates sometimes, and I guess this is one of those years where it's fluctuated.
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So it has not felt very much like spring, at least in the
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mornings and parts of the day yesterday and then now this morning as we get
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started. But the presence of pollen everywhere certainly signifies that spring is all around
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us. It's everywhere, even if we've got I guess some danger to the
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peach crops and some of the various crops around. I don't know about down
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in Florida, but a lot of crops in danger always get that danger when
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we get the cold weather that hits us past sort of the mid March range.
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Remember we've done snow in April before around here, not too long ago.
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It's happened. But there you go, all right. A couple of
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things I want to talk about because a few things relating to jobs, and
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two people that are talking about jobs. I have said, almost sort of
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jokingly for a while that I questioned this idea behind us still having a five
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day work week, forty hour work week. Used to talk about that on
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the radio a lot, partially joking but partially semi serious with it, because
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what I was kind of making the commentary for. And I want to remind
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you I'm not an economist. I am not someone who could even dream up
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a scenario where something like this could be implemented and I could tell you the
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way it would all play out. So I want to establish that first and
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foremost, in case you didn't know, in case it wasn't obvious, that
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that's not who I am. We were in a period several years ago of
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this push for moving minimum wage to fifteen dollars an hour, in some cases
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eighteen twenty dollars an hour depending on the jobs, and my comment that I
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made way back then, years ago was maybe we should consider that, and
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that maybe we should consider cutting the work week down to twenty one hours three
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days a week. You work twenty one hours and then you make you know,
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the minimum wage doubles jumps up from seven to twenty five, the national
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federal minimum wage jumps up maybe to fifteen dollars an hour, and then people
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could still earn basically the same money that they would have made in the forty
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hour work week, but they would be earning it in the twenty one hour
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work week. You know, just the minimum wage would be higher. They
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would just be working a fewer hours. That was the suggestion that I made,
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and my thinking there was that then if someone decided they wanted to get
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a second job and work twenty one hours and have two full time jobs effectively
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work six days a week, then you know, they would be in that
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position to have the forty two hours a week and they could earn the fifteen
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to eighteen dollars an hour whatever it was. That was the suggestion that I
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made, And of course this was my way of basically saying, look,
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if people want to earn twice as much for the minimum wage, then they
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should, you know, have the hours cut in half. And the idea
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is it's a couple of things. It gives you that option of having the
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two jobs or a second part time job doesn't have to be the full twenty
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one hour. And again, I don't have any science to back this up.
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I've done no studies, I've done no tests, nothing, I've got
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nothing to back this up. I said it then because I was trying to
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make a point about how if someone wants to double the salary, then maybe
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just cutting the hours in half would be the best way to go. That's
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all I was thinking. But I also was kind of trying to make the
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point too that if people were working three days a week instead of five in
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a seven day week in case you forgot how many days there were a week,
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then that would give an extra two days for people to be out spending
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money and doing things to bolster the economy, if you will. So that
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was something that I said, and I did. I do think that this
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idea of the forty hour work week, the five day week work week,
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it may have slowly getting maybe getting to a point I won't say that it
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has run its course, but it may be getting to a point where it's
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it's starting to do that, where it's starting to run its course. What
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I do know is that there are a lot of Americans who feel that that
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that old system of how things have just been done is a bit dated.
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Fifty seven percent actually in a new survey, said that a traditional nine to
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five, five day work week doesn't work for them. Fifty one percent that
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were surveyed said that they believe a rigid work schedule and lack of flex ability
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or relics of the past. Sixty seven percent said that getting paid once or
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twice a month is an outdated model. Fifty six percent said that they always
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or often find themselves stretching their income between pay periods, with the average employee
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running out of funds twelve days after being paid. Sixty four percent of employee
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surveys said that they would prefer to be paid weekly, while nineteen percent said
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they like to be paid daily. Seventy four percent set a job is more
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appealing if they're able to access their wages sooner. Okay, So that's just
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some of the breakdowns of it. And some of this obviously has nothing to
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do with what I was mentioning back then about shortening the work week. So
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now we have Bernie Sanders who is pushing for shortening the work week. He
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thinks a four day work week is the way to go. Again, I'm
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not, and he says, but it should be at the same salary,
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cut back the number of eyes. He's not talking about a ten hour day,
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four days a week. He's talking about, you know, cutting it
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down to thirty two hours, but you still make the same salary that you're
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currently making, or whatever the pay is. I've said before, I don't
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have issue specifically with the minimum wage going up. My issues about minimum wage
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changing are the impact that it has on people who have been at the job
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for a longer period of time. If you work at a place and you
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start and you're making seven twenty five an hour years ago, and then suddenly
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you've gotten to a point where maybe you're a shift leader or a manager assistant
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manager, and you're making say an assistant manager who's making twelve thirteen dollars an
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hour, and everyone else is making seven to twenty five, except obviously for
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the manager. And then suddenly the minimum wage goes to fifteen dollars. Well,
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there is the assistant manager probably making fifteen maybe sixteen dollars an hour,
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a little bit more than everyone else, but it's not to that ratio.
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They're not improving the wage for the person who's been there longer. Someone walks
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in the door brand new and they're almost making the same money as the person
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who has actually put should have equity at this point, right, they should
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have invested something into it that puts them to a position. So I was
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trying to make that point when I was talking about changing the minimum wage or
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changing the hours in the week, and my solution, I mean, again,
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I don't know what it would do to our way of life. I
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don't know what it would do to our entire system of functioning our economy.
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I don't know what it would do to that. But at least with mine,
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it would be a three day work week and you'd be making the same
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money as before if that was what the minimum wage went up to, if
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it doubled, and then you do have that option of getting a second job
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if you so choose. Now, with Bernie Sanders system, he's just talking
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about cutting it down to a four day, thirty two hour work week,
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and then you've got now three days I guess to go out and spend money,
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And it doesn't really make a whole lot of change because he says you
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should make the same money, all right, So there's his case for that.
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Now here's the other thing to add to the mix. Now, I'm
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going to assume that this particular scenario that Elon Musk is talking about is not
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anything that will happen anytime soon. And I don't see the Bernie Sanders thing
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happening at all. But okay, So AI Safety summit that happened in the
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UK back in November, and Elon Musk talked there at that summit about some
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of the things that he believes will eventually play out when it comes to AI
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and its impact on jobs. He I guess talked about how basically traditional employment
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will go away eventually because of AI, and he doesn't think that will enter
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a period of universal basic income, but something that he refers to as universal
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high income. He says that AI taking jobs away from people will eventually lead
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to this age of abundance. He said in at this summit, it's hard
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to say exactly what that moment is, but there will come a point where
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no job is needed. You can have a job if you want to have
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a job or some sort of personal satisfaction, but the AI will be able
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to do everything. And he acknowledged while he was talking, people are not
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gonna this is not something that everyone is just going to embrace this thought,
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especially not now because we have gotten to that stage of all of this.
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But he said, I think everyone will have access to this magic genie and
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you're able to ask any question. It'll be certainly bigger. For education,
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it'll be the best tutor, and there will be no shortage of goods and
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services. It will be an age of abundance. He says, we won't
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have universal basic income, will have universal high income. In some sense,
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it will be somewhat of a level or an equalizer. Universal income will be
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the necessary over time if AI takes over most of the human jobs. And
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he posted that I guess on x formerly Twitter back when it was still called
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Twitter back in the day. So he has addressed this before. But now
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he's saying not universal income or basic universal income. No, no, no,
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he's referring to this high income that he says everyone will be able to
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experience. Now, does this kind of utopia sound appealing? Obviously for some
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the idea of not having to go to a job and grind things out sounds
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appealing. It has certainly this you know, Marxist field, It has that
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whole idea to it there for some, which makes it appealing. There have
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to be questions that get asked. Who decides how much the high income is?
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Does everybody truly all make the same income, or do you know,
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is there someone who's in charge maybe it makes a little bit more than everybody
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else that decides how much everybody else gets. We all know where this line
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of thinking takes us. Is it a possibility that this is a reality that
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we're one day going to face? I suppose at the very least, this
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may be the way things are going to be run on Mars one day.
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Elon certainly has his eyes on, you know, putting or at least being
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responsible. But I would think he wants to put his own bootprint on Mars.
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But he certainly would like to be part of the whole colonizing of Mars
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movement. He's talked about it. So it's an interesting thought exercise, I
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think. But again, for this to work, there has to be someone
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running the show, right, wouldn't There have to be someone? And this
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is what ultimately happens in these kinds of Marxist governments, these communist governments.
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There's always this upper class that's running things and then everyone below is kind of
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going, well, we'll take whatever you give us thanks, But aren't there
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always going to be certain jobs that have to be He references education. Won't
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there always be a need for teachers? Or is he saying that kids are
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just going to get there? Well, I guess they don't need an education,
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they don't need something that will eventually. But is AI going to be
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able to do everything? Or we're not going to have a need for plumbers
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or we can to not have a need for is AI going to handle everything
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medical? I mean, I suppose that's the suggestion of where all of this
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is heading. A robot's going to show up at your house and fix the
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plumbing, or your meals going to be all prepared by robots. I suppose
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that sounds more likely to me than you know, AI robots, AI driven
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robots doing all of our surgeries and medical procedures. And then what happens when
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someone says, all right, well, the AI is going to decide whether
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or not your surgery should be done at all. They're going to do the
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math and tell us whether or not you're going to continue to earn this universal
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high income whether you deserve it or not, or is there you a hindrance?
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I know, I know me being the cynic me being the one saying,
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is this really something that's going to be apart possibility? Could this really
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work? I hate to be that guy, you know, in this age
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of all of these Marxist ideals being pushed forward, when we've got AOC talking
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about that state of permanent revolution that she wants us to be in, and
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how you can't enjoy brunches anymore. You got to keep fighting, got to
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keep it going. All of a sudden, these things, these Marxist ideas
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like that, And I mean, I don't necessarily think Elon Musk is coming
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at this from a yay I like communism Marxism philosophy. I think he's looking
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at it as what the potential would be for AI. But again, we'd
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have to hand so much over to AI, we'd have to hand it over
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to artificial intelligence. And at what point did the machines rise up and realize,
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well, what do we need you guys for? What do we need
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you for? Exactly? I don't know that AI needs income. I don't
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know that AI needs money. I don't know that it would actually need that.
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So maybe it would see that we're just a giant drain on them,
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period, or do we actually get to a point where we have to become
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the batteries in the system, like the matrix. They're all hypotheticals. I
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understand that we're diving into some weird sci fi stuff here this morning, but
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it's just an interesting idea. All I wanted to do was maybe, you
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know, counteract the doubling the minimum wage with cutting the work week in half.
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I thought mine was much more practical. That's what I thought. I
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thought I was offering up a practical solution. All of this stuff sounds heavy,
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and it sounds like eventually the rise of the machines and that we're all
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More West Carol Morning Show right after the break. So, the idea
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of shouting or swearing or yelling when you're angry as a means of calming yourself
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down apparently is being questioned by a study that was done at Ohio State University.
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I'm not saying thee. It says screaming when your upset does not help
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calm you down. Instead, you should just breathe. According to researchers,
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these methods are more effective and calming you down than yelling. It says deep
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breathing, mindfulness, meditation, sorry, mindfulness sounds silly there, meditation,
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yoga, and counting to ten. And here's an interesting part of it too,
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It says researchers say that going for a run does not help when you're
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upset. They call it a myth. The Ohio State professor and communication Brad
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Bushman says, I think it's really important to bust the myth that if you're
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angry you should blow off steam. Venting anger might sound like a good idea,
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but it's not a shred of scientific evidence to support the catharsis theory.
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He says, to reduce anger, it is better to engage in activities that
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decrease arousal levels. Despite what popular wisdom may suggest, even going for a
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run is not an effective strategy because it increases arousal levels and ends up being
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counterproductive. I always liked the idea that swearing would help diffuse things, you
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know. I know it's not for everybody, and I know some people you
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know, might be a little prudish when it comes to swearing, But I
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just always thought that the idea behind you know, like, ah, and
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then you swear and it makes you feel a little bit better. But apparently
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none of this is true. You're just supposed to count to ten. I
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think about the was it the Donald Duck cartoon, you know, laugh and
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count to ten, laughing, count to ten. I remember that, and
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you try to do it, and it didn't work, and always for him
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it didn't work. But apparently, according to experts at Ohio State, that's
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what they say to go hey, I know a lot of talk about age
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of our presidential candidates. According to a new pole, majority of Americans say
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that they actually have no problem with someone in their eighties serving as president.
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However, not so true when it comes to people in their eighties plus and
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other professions. According to the USA Today's poll found sixty two percent or not
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comfortable with someone in their eighties performing surgery, sixty percent said that they don't
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want an eighty year old airline pilot, and fifty five percent said they don't
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want a school bus driver who's in their eighties. That's interesting running the country,
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sure, driving a school bus, not so much. I understand that
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there's a difference, but there's a lot of pressure. There's a lot at
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stake for someone being the president in their eighties, and I don't think it's
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so much necessarily about the age. I think it's about their ability to function
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in the job. I think that's more the issue right now than anything else,
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at least with a certain current candidate for president who currently is the president,
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not to name any names. How about this, I did not realize
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this, but pantyhose was part of the uniform required uniform for female Marines when
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they were wearing a uniform skirt, and this, I guess was required up
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until last week. If it says effective immediately, the wear of hosiery live
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skirtz is optional. This from the Marine Corps in a statement. If women
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do choose to wear pantyhose with their skirts, it must be skin tone harmonizing.
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According to the Marines, dark hose or black socks may still be worn
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under a under their dress slacks. I didn't realize that was still part of
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the uniform, and I don't know why I would have known that, But
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you know, it's not like it's come up a lot for me. But
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it's interesting that that was still a thing. I didn't know that. I
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assume that there were certain uniform requirements and rules. I just didn't know that
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that was one of them. And then it's now gone, It's been taken
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away. Goodbye to the mandatory pantyhose for female marines. Some of that.
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