For me it’s as simple as charging robots the same income tax as an employee. In my work, we account 40% additional salary for “on costs”. These are typically the wrapper that goes around managing employee; employee benefits, welfare, pensions, continual professional development and professional services like HR to deal with employee issues.

Any business that goes all in on automation is already making a 40% cost saving versus us bags of mostly water.

I'll join you in hoping, but I wouldn't consider it a design change (focused on aesthetics and construction).

Actually, now that I think of it, a change to more exotic materials for weight savings (titanium, composites) would be a possible next step that would be notable but still the basic candy-bar shape.

Not the victory condition I expected they would go for, but I imagine the +25% tourism from their extensive international trade routes is doing a lot of the heavy lifting. And don’t forget the religious tourism. America hasn’t researched Enlightenment yet and may never, if things continue as they are.

Props for reporting the reporting the RTR bill correctly

If you walk through any American city you’ll see homelessness and garbage in the streets. If you walk through Riyadh you will see clean streets, no homelessness, and clean buildings with no graffiti and no street crime. People can complain like you said, it’s just wind.

Lol yes, mine finds my phone a lot for me when my watch is charging. And answers obscure questions my kids have that I couldn't even begin to answer.

Love that Petrodollar, thanks World!

When you stop and think about it, a Saudi prince got the US to go in and cripple the Saudis main adversary in their region, killing hundreds of thousands of their civilians in over a decade of occupation, by killing US citizens in a terrorist attack.

Where did you read this?

The new one have it without too.

Consider in a globalised capitalist economy, every time you participate in that economy you are if not directly then indirectly increasing the wealth of those with large amounts of capital in the game.

It's like when people say "don't support Nestle don't buy these products!"

Guess what, Nestle hold billions in diversified stock options. Buying an iPhone supports Nestle. Buying a competing product supports Nestle. Not directly, but indirectly and when they make a dollar either way how exactly does that even matter?

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Also a pop up for the newsletter, then a pop up add, a pop up discount spinner, and a pop up text message for discount. Also video ads, that don’t load right, and continue to move the screen on your mobile browser up and down.

Consider the original iPhone in 2008 and the latest one available today.

Apply the same level of funding and development to VR today and 15 years from now, you'll barely be able to tell a regular pair of glasses from a VR pair.

Saudis starting to realize the Israeli strategy is the right one. Buy into every major industry, especially tech and especially in America, and let the money do the talking. It's all about the Benjamins

They hacked my Google Home and still don't know what I'm doing for dinner. if they have any suggestions they can Chime in.

All show, no substance. Thanks for nothing but headlines, politicians.

What you need is successive waves of a virus that kills off all your weak and old, useless slaves cough citizens that expect these kinds of benefits/welfare.

Keep a small group of fit ones as your consumers to buy your yearly "upgraded" gadgets and vitamin waters and import immigrants to do the service work. As you take away the benefits and welfare, the immigrants won't protest because they never even knew they existed.

There's a fallacy that since WW2 and the short period of financial reckoning millions of military trained men returning could quietly, purposely force from their governments everything will just get a bit better by default every year. For a select few, sure, for the majority of us cost of living from groceries to housing has decimated the existing middle class and it's attainability for those trying to move up.

But lets all spend our time complaining about clickbait headlines and why my sexism/racism/ageism/incelism/disability/LGBQT2OWL is the one that deserves the most attention while they quietly undermine all of us in the underlying root cause of these issues, wealth inequality.

Note to self: never spend on cent on Magic Leap.

Just wait until they hear about cell phones!

The Saudi’s are smart enough to learn from history.

They are diversifying now, while wealthy, instead of repeating the mistakes of Spain during their Golden Century.

And it wouldn't matter one bit if not a drop of Saudi oil ever made it to the states. While they support the petrodollar, while energy is traded using America's currency, the world props up America.

But imagine the beheadings in VR. So close to action, you can see the blood splashing your vr clothes.

Oil is used for far more than just fuel.

It’s one of the backbones our civilization is built upon.