What direction do you see the world going in (future jobs etc)

dowie said:
re-emergence of a servant class to serve the tech elite who will become the new aristocracy when the regular jobs are wiped out by advances in technology
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There's probably going to be the tech boom, but the current aristocracy will just own all the IP. The tech guys will be workers like everybody else (minus the odd dozen that might break through).

EDIT: Also a lot of the tech skills will get more commodified than they are now.
 
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Until machines can think for themselves, they'll need a human to install, service and repair them.

Be that person, or even better, the person that designs them and you'll always have marketable skills.
 
dowie said:
no humans required for manufacturing (save for a few highly skilled designers), t
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I don't think this is true. While machines are great they do have limitations for example they still need to be calibrated.
I remember reading that a majority of an aeroplane is hand built/assembled because everything needs to be checked (to comply with safety regulations). They can't afford to find out that a machine was out of calibration after it has screwed in 1000's of bolts.
 
drakioned said:
There's probably going to be the tech boom, but the current aristocracy will just own all the IP. The tech guys will be workers like everybody else (minus the odd dozen that might break through).

EDIT: Also a lot of the tech skills will get more commodified than they are now.
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This. Though I think a lot of the current technology development, maybe a third of it, will turn out to be a waste of money and result in economic loss. VR, driverless cars are two examples of this imo.

In the future if you want to get rich you'll have to either provide a service to probably one rich person, or to millions of poor people. The middle-class is a shrinking market here in the West.
 
Do anything that genuinely makes you feel good about doing it and changes peoples lives for the positive... so... Sex robot cleaner or Holodeck semen scrubber.
 
itchy said:
True but what is better ? :confused:

Immorality, subjectiveness, greed, predisposition, decadence, detachment and mobile phones. :D

No one cares anymore about anyone as people are predispositioned and conditioned to be subjective to others. No one gives a **** basically. :(
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everyone of those except mobile phones was there before too.

i mean we no longer have eugenics as widespread practice.


i'd say it fits those categories far more than nything today.


people are predispositioned and conditioned to be subjective to others.
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i'm assuming theres a typo in there somewhere or you don't know what those words mean as that sentence is literally gibberish and contradictory.
 
drakioned said:
There's probably going to be the tech boom, but the current aristocracy will just own all the IP. The tech guys will be workers like everybody else (minus the odd dozen that might break through).
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what on earth are you basing that on? I mean looking at successful tech companies today can you point out many that are majority owned or founded by aristocrats/land owning gentry :confused:

the last one I worked at had a billionaire owner and he definitely wasn't an aristocrat nor were the multimillionaire founders of the various companies that were acquired by him for XXmillion, XXXmillion etc.. along the way. In fact one of those founders is now a billionaire too as a result of another well known company/product he set up after we took over his original firm
 
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The have's will have and nots will not.

Those in the middle will continue to be squeezed but remain faithful to the have's for letting them be better off than the nots.

Same as always then.
 
dowie said:
what on earth are you basing that on? I mean looking at successful tech companies today can you point out many that are majority owned or founded by aristocrats/land owning gentry :confused:

the last one I worked at had a billionaire owner and he definitely wasn't an aristocrat nor were the multimillionaire founders of the various companies that were acquired by him for XXmillion, XXXmillion etc.. along the way. In fact one of those founders is now a billionaire too as a result of another well known company/product he set up after we took over his original firm
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Our current aristocrats are not just landed gentry, they're also the guys who head up the major investment banks, the hedge funders at companies with names like XYZ Capital or ABC Partners, or 123 Asset Management, and the political elites.

Look at Facebook for example, $100bn and it went to Zuckerberg, Moskovitz (the techs), Peter Thiel (of Clarium Capital), Accel Partners, Greylock Partners, Meritech Capital, Elevation Partners, Goldman Sachs, and a couple of others (Microsoft, etc). This isn't a creation of a new tech elite aristrocracy, it's one or two guys joining the aristocracy. The George Soroses and the Warren Buffets aren't being displaced by Whatsapp's founder banking a few billion.
 
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One sure fire way is property ownership, always has been despite property crashes. In a nation with a housing shortage (high property prices) there will always be demand.

Bricks and mortar are always worth money. If you can find a way to make it cheaper to build and a place to build where is worth building, then do so.

I like the shipping container conversion idea (no idea what it would be like to live in one). Create an entire block of 1 bed apartments near London with good rail links and you would be quids in.


Failing that, letterbox cleaning.
 
I reckon we are overdue a pandemic. A nice dose of Bad Flu would fit the bill, as might a new strain of Ebola (A disease that seems to be evolving into a rather more dangerous disease, ironically, by becoming less lethal)
 
drakioned said:
Our current aristocrats are not just landed gentry, they're also the guys who head up the major investment banks, the hedge funders at companies with names like XYZ Capital or ABC Partners, or 123 Asset Management, and the political elites.

Look at Facebook for example, $100bn and it went to Zuckerberg, Moskovitz (the techs), Peter Thiel (of Clarium Capital), Accel Partners, Greylock Partners, Meritech Capital, Elevation Partners, Goldman Sachs, and a couple of others (Microsoft, etc). This isn't a creation of a new tech elite aristrocracy, it's one or two guys joining the aristocracy. The George Soroses and the Warren Buffets aren't being displaced by Whatsapp's founder banking a few billion.
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none of those people are aristocrats, neither are most of the guys who head up major investment banks, plenty of them are from middle class backgrounds or working class backgrounds

George Soros is a Hungarian Jew who had to flee the Nazis, how on earth is he an 'aristocrat'?

Peter Theil was the son of an engineer.

these investors and bankers are largely self made just as the tech execs and entrepreneurs are
 
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He's using "aristocrat" as a metaphor for the current set of global elites. This is not without validity given the way they are behaving e.g. buying up as much land as possible, influencing the direction of nation states by undermining democracy, ostentaious displays of wealth.
 
Pollution caused mutations and genetic degradation across the biosphere with humanity digitising our consciousness into machines in a truly desperate attempt to survive.
 
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