When people, usually of the older generations, complain about a “sense of entitlement” in the younger generations, they need to realize that the argument cuts both ways. A sense of entitlement develops from getting something you don’t deserve given to you often enough that you forget why you’re getting it, and think you deserve it…
Month: August 2023
Social Commentary
Artificial Intelligence Is Gonna Take Over!
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I’ll say it right off the top. It isn’t gonna happen. Notice, I don’t say it couldn’t happen. I mean, Donald Trump got elected president, didn’t he? But Artificial Intelligence becoming smarter than humans and taking over the world? The odds are heavily against it. And if it ever happens, I guarantee that somewhere…
Social Commentary
Airbnb and the Housing Crisis
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Whenever new technology or social change creates a new business model, many people jump on the get-rich-quick bandwagon. A business formerly dominated by regulated professionals quickly becomes inundated with amateurs. They set their own rules, they make up their own standards, and the less reputable move rapidly into illegal activities. In the long run, somebody…
Social Commentary
Erosion of the Rights of Writers
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News Media This week the news is full of the fight between the Canadian Government and the big news media like Facebook over payment for use of Canadian news on their platforms. This should be a simple matter. Newspaper prints original article. Article belongs to newspaper. You want to use it; you pay the going…