How Will Automation Affect Different U.S. Cities?
No matter how you shake this, we&#x27;re looking at 60+% additional unemployment for every city. Some fare much worse. And I remember from my history studies that the Great Depression was officially around 33% unemployment.<p>I&#x27;ve listened to the national talking heads and political figures, and nobody publicly is talking about this. Not the Republicans, and not the Democrats. However, the Dems seem to have a better idea by bolstering all sorts of subsidy and welfare programs. Those work well and good for keep individuals out of poverty, but falls short when working with communities of impoverished. These end up counting on, and using tax revenues from well-to-do areas. And these unemployment numbers show that there won&#x27;t be &#x27;well-to-do&#x27; areas.<p>The WPA was one such way out of mass unemployment. But given how effective automation is, I question its use this time around, if the current political atmosphere would even have the stomach to discuss such things.<p>This is one result from capitalism. Accelerate until we hit the wall. And this wall, is that we will no longer need &quot;labor&quot; provided by humans. So, what do we do with the 95% of people that must work? That&#x27;s the $64,000 question.<p>My personal plan: I&#x27;m learning electronics from the ground up. I&#x27;m teaching myself control systems theory. I&#x27;m learning how things are put together - electronics are very similar to code libraries. You do a function block to do something, and you chain them together. This means that I&#x27;m untraining specialities, and learning how to analyse and fix quickly. I guess being a sysad also helps in that. I&#x27;m not putting much trust in the national or state level government. I see more done at the local levels, but without tax revenue&#x2F;money, they&#x27;re up shit&#x27;s creek as well.