Robots Will Steal Your Job

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May 10, 2019Robots Will Steal Your Job #19: Making the Future
Chapter Index
00:00 | Intro
00:25 | Chapter Begins
01:58 | 1.1 Support Open Source Projects
14:34 | 1.2 Vote With Your Wallet (Not What You Think)
16:30 | 1.3 Work Less, Be Self-Employed
23:36 | 1.4 Don't Be A Dick
28:07 | Outro
References
This quote is attributed to Peter Drucker, but many people expressed similar ideas – Alan Curtis Kay at a 1971 meeting of PARC said: “The best way to predict the future is to invent it”. More recently, Peter Diamandis is famous for his phrase: “The best way to predict the future is to make it yourself.”
Do not underestimate the importance of software. Most of the things that help us live better are software. Medical equipment, servers, personal computers, cellphones, electronics, street-lights, the Internet…think about how many things we take for granted, that could not exist without software.
Open Source. Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source
Can We Open Source Everything? The Future of the Open Philosophy. University of Cambridge.
http://www.sms.cam.ac.uk/media/517352;jsessionid=62FE4CCB3807753999235E2EA54E5009
LATEX – a document preparation system.
http://www.latex-project.org/
Open at the source. Apple.
http://www.apple.com/opensource/
Kickstarter Expects To Provide More Funding To The Arts Than NEA, Carl Franzen, 2012.
http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/02/kickstarter-expects-to-provide-more-funding-to-the-arts-than-nea.php
Marcin Jakubowski: Open-sourced blueprints for civilization, Marcin Jakubowski. TED.
http://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski.html
Jimmy Wales interviewed by Miller, Rob ‘Roblimo’. Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Responds, 2004. Slashdot.
http://slashdot.org/story/04/07/28/1351230/wikipedia-founder-jimmy-wales-responds
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus, Clay Shirky, 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-10-16.
http://replay.web.archive.org/20101016111844/http://www.herecomeseverybody.org//2008//04//looking-for-the-mouse.html
21 hours Why a shorter working week can help us all to flourish in the 21st century, Anna Coote, Jane Franklin and Andrew Simms, 2010. new economics foundation.
http://neweconomics.org/sites/neweconomics.org/files/21_Hours.pdf
Graham Hill: Why I’m a weekday vegetarian, Graham Hill, 2010. TED.
http://www.ted.com/talks/graham_hill_weekday_vegetarian.html
Attributions
Chapter Text and comment section: Chapter 19: Making the Future | Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That's OK
Theme song: The Freeharmonic Orchestra - RoboHobo
Album art adapted by: Redd Spinks
Copyright
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May 03, 2019Robots Will Steal Your Job #18: Practical Advice for Everyone
Chapter Index
00:00 | Intro
00:25 | Chapter Begins
01:12 | 1.1 Need Less, Live More
08:56 | 1.2 Educate yourself
32:35 | 1.3 Educate Others
33:28 | 1.4 Grow Your Own Food
37:38 | 1.5 Eat Less Meat
43:05 | 1.6 Hungry, Hungry Houses (Save Energy)
49:26 | 1.7 Make Your Own Energy
51:25 | 1.8 Ditch the Car
56:36 | Outro
Figures
Figure 1.1: A comic strip I did back in 2009 for Blog Action Day.
Tables

Green Tune-ups

Payback Time
Added cost

Annual
savings

10-year savings
ROI

1.2 years
$1,320

$1,136
$11,360
96.5%

Green remodel

Payback Time
Added cost

Annual
savings

10-year savings
ROI

4.2 years
$15,814

$4,348
$43,480
26.8%

Green advanced systems

Payback Time
Added cost

Annual
savings

20-year savings
ROI

8.7 years
$69,590

$7,309
$182,170
11.8%

Table 1.1: Summary of house retrofit savings.
References
Virtue. Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue
Average Salary In United States.
http://www.averagesalarysurvey.com/article/average-salary-in-united-states/15200316.aspx
National Average Wage Index. The United States Social Security Administration.
http://www.ssa.gov/oact/COLA/AWI.html
Regrettably, the origin of this quote is unknown, although it is generally cited as being Chinese. Over the years, the quote has been misattributed to Confucius, Lao Tzu, Laozi, and Guan Zhong. This is a Chinese Proverb, which loosely means “It is better to teach someone how to do something than to do it for them”.
http://goo.gl/XdvT9
Decline in fish stocks, 1999. World Resources Institute.
http://www.wri.org/publication/content/8385
iPhone 5 announcement: 3 important things to watch, 2012. MSN Finance.
http://finance.ninemsn.com.au/newsbusiness/motley/8531541/iphone-5-announcement-3-important-things-to-watch
Why MIT decided to give away all its course materials via the Internet, C. M. Vest, 2004. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 50(21), B20.
See The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis, Jeremy Rifkin, 2009. Tarcher.
Wolfram Alpha is an online service that answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from structured data, rather than providing a list of documents or web pages that might contain the answer as a search engine might. The goal is to “make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone.”
http://www.wolframalpha.com/about.html
College 2.0: A Self-Appointed Teacher Runs a One-Man ‘Academy’ on YouTube, Jeffrey R. Young, 2010. The Chronicle of Higher Education.
http://chronicle.com/article/A-Self-Appointed-Teacher-Runs/65793/
Accelerating change. Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerating_change
Journal of the American Dietetic Association.
http://eatright.org/cps/rde/xchg/ada/hs.xsl/home_7018_ENU_HTML.htm
FAO – Cattle ranching is encroaching on forests in Latin America, 2005. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2005/102924/
Ethics and Climate Change in Asia and the Pacific (ECCAP) Project, Robert A. Kanaly, Lea Ivy O. Manzanero, Gerard Foley, Sivanandam Panneerselvam, Darryl Macer, 2010. Working Group 13 Report, Energy Flow, Environment and Ethical Implications for Meat Production.
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001897/189774e.pdf
Livestock’s Long Shadow: Environmental Issues and Options, H. Steinfeld et al, 2006. Livestock, Environment and Development. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/010/a0701e/a0701e00.pdf
Water footprints of nations, AK Chapagain, AY Hoekstra, 2004. Value of Water Research Report Series (UNESCO-IHE) 6.
http://www.waterfootprint.org/Reports/Report16Vol1.pdf
Eating Lots of Red Meat Linked to Colon Cancer. American Cancer Society.
http://209.135.47.118/docroot/NWS/content/NWS_1_1x_Eating_Lots_of_Red_Meat_Linked_to_Colon_Cancer.asp
Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective, 2007. World Cancer Research Fund. p. 116.
Breast Cancer Risk Linked To Red Meat, Study Finds, Rob Stein, 2006. The Washington Post.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/13/AR2006111300824.html
Study Links Meat Consumption to Gastric Cancer. National Cancer Institute.
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/prevention-genetics-causes/causes/meatconsumption
Study links red meat to some cancers. CNN.
http://www.cnn.com/US/9604/30/meat.cancer/
Associations between diet and cancer, ischemic heart disease, and all-cause mortality in non-Hispanic white California Seventh-day Adventists. The American journal of clinical nutrition 70 (3 Suppl): 532S-538S.
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=10479227
Lung cancer risk and red meat consumption among Iowa women, M. C. R. Alavanja et al, 2011. Lung Cancer 34.1. pp. 37-46.
Relationship between meat intake and the development of acute coronary syndromes: the CARDIO2000 case-control study, Kontogianni et al, 2007. European journal of clinical nutrition 62.2. pp. 171-177.
Dietary Fat and Meat Intake in Relation to Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Men, R.M. Van Dam, W. C. Willett, E.B. Rimm, M. J. Stampfer, F. B. Hu, 2002. Diabetes Care 25 (3).
Meat consumption is associated with obesity and central obesity among US adults, Y. Wang, M. A. Beydoun, 2009. International Journal of Obesity 33 (6). pp. 621-628.
Dietary risk factors for the development of inflammatory polyarthritis: evidence for a role of high level of red meat consumption, D.J. Pattison et al, 2004. Arthritis & Rheumatism 50.12. pp. 3804-3812.
The Nest, an example of a Learning Thermostat.
http://www.nest.com
Hot Water Heater ‘Blanket’.
http://www.greenandsave.com/utility_savings/gas/hot_water_heater_blanket.html
Standby Power Reduction.
http://www.greenandsave.com/utility_savings/electric/standby_power_reduction.html
Master ROI Table.
http://www.greenandsave.com/master_roi_table.html
Integrative Design: A Disruptive Source of Expanding Returns to Investments in Energy Efficiency, Amory Lovins, 2010. Rocky Mountain Institute.
http://www.rmi.org/Knowledge-Center/Library/2010-09_IntegrativeDesign
Solar and Nuclear Costs – The Historic Crossover, John O. Blackburn and Sam Cunningham, 2010. Duke University. NC WARN: Waste Awareness & Reduction network.
http://www.ncwarn.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/NCW-SolarReport_final1.pdf
Mapping Solar Grid Parity, John Farrell.
http://energyselfreliantstates.org/content/mapping-solar-grid-parity
Re-Mapping Solar Grid Parity, John Farrell.
http://www.energyselfreliantstates.org/content/re-mapping-solar-grid-parity-incentives
Smaller, cheaper, faster: Does Moore’s law apply to solar cells?, Ramez Naam, 2011. Scientific American.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2011/03/16/smaller-cheaper-faster-does-moores-law-apply-to-solar-cells/
The True Cost Of Owning A Car, 2008. Investopedia.
http://www.investopedia.com/articles/pf/08/cost-car-ownership.asp\#axzz1u18EBznk
Road accident statistics in Europe, 2007. CARE and national data, European Union.
http://ec.europa.eu/sverige/documents/traffic_press_stats.pdf
Cars and community – is it possible to have both?, 2009.
http://makewealthhistory.org/2009/06/22/cars-and-community-is-it-possible-to-have-both/
National Obesity Trends, 2010. CDC – National Center for Health Statistics.
http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/trends.html
Over half the US will be obese by 2015, YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXNe3LHlVxU
Peer-to-peer car rental. Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer_car_rental
Attributions
Chapter Text and comment section: Chapter 18: Practical Advice for Everyone | Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That's OK
Theme song: The Freeharmonic Orchestra - RoboHobo
Album art adapted by: Redd Spinks
Copyright
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April 26, 2019Robots Will Steal Your Job #17: The Purpose of Life
Chapter Index
00:00 | Intro
00:25 | Chapter Begins
08:18 | Outro
References
The Essential 20: Twenty Components of an Excellent Health Care Team, Dianne Dukette and David Cornish, 2009. RoseDog Books. pp. 72-73.
The New York Magazine Environmental Teach-In, Elizabeth Barlow, 30 March 1970. New York Magazine. p. 30.
http://books.google.com/books?id=cccDAAAAMBAJ\&printsec=frontcover\#PPA30,M1. Fuller was of course also an architect, an engineer, an author, a designer, a most notable systems theorist, and he is considered by many to be one of the greatest thinkers of the last century; having coined the terms “Spaceship Earth”, ephemeralization, and synergetic, among others.
Philippe Beaudoin, 2012.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/107988469357342173268/posts/2MVoo5KG1eP
Rice University’s 2012 commencement, Salman Khan, 2012.
http://www.khanacademy.org/talks-and-interviews/v/salman-khan-at-rice-university-s-2012-commencement
80% Hate Their Jobs – But Should You Choose A Passion Or A Paycheck?, 2010. Business Insider.
http://articles.businessinsider.com/2010-10-04/strategy/30001895_1_new-job-passion-careers
Attributions
Chapter Text and comment section: Chapter 17: The Purpose of Life | Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That's OK
Theme song: The Freeharmonic Orchestra - RoboHobo
Album art adapted by: Redd Spinks
Copyright
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April 19, 2019Robots Will Steal Your Job #16: Work and Happiness
Chapter Index
00:00 | Intro
00:25 | Chapter begins
10:13 | 1.1 Flow
15:41 | Outro
Figures
Figure 1.1: Life evaluation against working hours in OECD countries (2009). On the y-axis is percentage of people thriving, on the x-axis the average annual hours actually worked per worker. Happiness data comes from the Gallup World Poll 2005-2009 and working hours from the official OECD library. For an interactive version of the graph, click here.
References
For a survey, see Darity and Goldsmith, 1996. Bjorklund and Eriksson (1998) and Korpi (1997) provide evidence for Scandinavian countries, Blanchflower and Oswald (2004b) for the United Kingdom and the United States, Winkelmann and Winkelmann (1998) for Germany, and Ravallion and Lokshin (2001) for Russia.
Unhappiness and Unemployment, Andrew E. Clark and Andrew J. Oswald, 1994. The Economic Journal Vol. 104, No. 424 (May, 1994). pp. 648-659.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2234639
See, e.g., Winkelmann and Winkelmann 1998 for German panel data, or Marks and Fleming (1999) for Australian panel data, the latter considering in detail various effects on mental health.
For a survey, see Murphy and Athanasou (1999).
“There are some very interesting exceptions. For instance, we do not get used to noise. A lot of research suggests that if your environment is noisy, for example they are doing construction around you, you can not get used to it. Your happiness drops and it does not come back up. Your system cannot habituate to continued noise. We adapt to good things, winning the lottery, winning a prize, getting an ‘A’ in a course. We adapt, we get used to it, also with some surprising exceptions. One of the other surprises from happiness research is the effects of cosmetic surgery like breast enhancement and breast reduction. One of the big surprises is it makes people happier and they stay happier. And one explanation for this is how we look is very important. It is very important for how other people see us and how we see ourselves, and you never just get used to looking a certain way. So, if you look better it just makes you happier all the time.” – Psychology 110 Lecture 20 - The Good Life: Happiness, prof. Paul Bloom. Yale University.
http://oyc.yale.edu/psychology/psyc-110/lecture-20
Veum Goldsmith and Darity (1996).
Ruhm (2000).
Stutzer and Lalive (2004).
Clark and Oswald (1994).
Handbook of Positive Psychology, Jeanne Nakamura and Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, 2001. pp.89-101.
Handbook of competence and motivation, Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Sami Abuhamdeh, and Jeanne Nakamura, 2005. Chapter 32 – Flow.
http://academic.udayton.edu/jackbauer/CsikFlow.pdf
Bruno S. Frey (2008), Hamilton (2000), Ryan and Deci (2000).
Meier and Stutzer (2008).
Table: The World’s Happiest Countries, 2010. Time Magazine.
http://www.forbes.com/2010/07/14/world-happiest-countries-lifestyle-realestate-gallup-table.html?partner=popstories
Average annual hours actually worked per worker. OECD library, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DatasetCode=ANHRS
Attributions
Chapter Text and comment section: Chapter 16: Work and Happiness | Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That's OK
Theme song: The Freeharmonic Orchestra - RoboHobo
Album art adapted by: Redd Spinks
Copyright
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April 12, 2019Robots Will Steal Your Job #15: Happiness
Chapter Index
00:00 | Intro
00:25 | Chapter begins
05:04 | 1.1 Experience Simulations
13:56 | Outro
References
Adapted from Spike Milligan’s Money can’t buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery and many other variations.
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/money_can-t_buy_you_happiness_but_it_does_bring/220031.html
This quote is supposedly attributed to Jim Carrey, but I could only find one mildly reputable source. Regardless, I think it is a great quote.
http://goo.gl/7Am3s
Genes, Economics, and Happiness, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, James H. Fowler, Bruno S. Frey, 2010. CESifo Working Paper Series 2946, CESifo Group Munich.
http://jhfowler.ucsd.edu/genes_economics_and_happiness.pdf
“Studies comparing identical twins with non-identical twins have helped to establish the heritability of many aspects of behaviour. Recent work suggests that about one third of the variation in people’s happiness is heritable. Jan-Emmanuel De Neve has taken the study a step further, picking a popular suspect – the gene that encodes the serotonin-transporter protein, a molecule that shuffles a brain messenger called serotonin through cell membranes – and examined how variants of the 5-HTT gene affect levels of happiness. The serotonin-transporter gene comes in two functional variants – long and short – and people have two versions (known as alleles) of each gene, one from each parent. After examining genetic data from more than 2,500 participants in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, De Neve found that people with one long allele were 8% more likely than those with none to describe themselves as very satisfied with life and those with two long alleles were 17% more likely of describing themselves as very satisfied. Interestingly enough, there is a notable variation across races with Asian Americans in the sample having on average 0.69 long genes, white Americans with 1.12, and black Americans with 1.47. ’It has long been suspected that this gene plays a role in mental health but this is the first study to show that it is instrumental in shaping our individual happiness levels,’ writes De Neve. ’This finding helps to explain why we each have a unique baseline level of happiness and why some people tend to be naturally happier than others, and that is in no small part due to our individual genetic make-up.”’, 2011. Slashdot.
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/18/0515236/the-genetics-of-happiness
Genetic engineering, personalised medicine, all fascinating fields to discuss, which will undoubtedly be at the centre of attention in a few years.
Happiness is the Frequency, Not the Intensity, of Positive Versus Negative Affect, Ed Diener, Ed Sandvik and William Pavot, 2009. Social Indicators Research Series, 2009, Volume 39. pp. 213-231.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2354-4_10
Discoveries at the Diener’s Lab, Prof. Ed Diener, University of Illinois.
http://internal.psychology.illinois.edu/~ediener/discoveries.html
The example was adapted from the talk Dan Gilbert asks: Why are we happy?, Dan Gilbert, 2004. TED Global.
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.html
Dan Gilbert, Why are we happy?, Dan Gilbert, 2004. TED Global.
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.html. Emphasis mine.
Attributions
Chapter Text and comment section: Chapter 15: Happiness | Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That's OK
Theme song: The Freeharmonic Orchestra - RoboHobo
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April 05, 2019Robots Will Steal Your Job #14: Income and Happiness
Chapter Index
00:00 | Intro
00:25 | Chapter begins
08:26 | Outro
Figures
Figure 1.1: Subjective well-being (SWB), per capita gross domestic product (GDP), and different types of societies – Inglehart, Foa, Peterson, and Welzel (2008)
References
Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Re-Assessing the Easterlin Paradox, Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, 2008. Brookings Panel on Economic Activity.
http://bpp.wharton.upenn.edu/betseys/papers/Happiness.pdf
Income, Health, and Well-Being around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll, Angus Deaton, 2008. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 22(2). pp. 53-72.
http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/jep.22.2.53
Does Inequality Make Us Unhappy?, Jonah Lehrer, 2011. Wired.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/11/does-inequality-make-us-unhappy/
The Pursuit of Happiness: An Economy of Well-Being, Carol Graham, 2011. Brookings Institution Press. p. 22.
High income improves evaluation of life but not emotional well-being, Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton, 2010. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
http://www.pnas.org/content/107/38/16489.full
Attributions
Chapter Text and comment section: Chapter 14: Income and Happiness | Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That's OK
Theme song: The Freeharmonic Orchestra - RoboHobo
Album art adapted by: Redd Spinks
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March 29, 2019Robots Will Steal Your Job #13: Growth and Happiness
Chapter Index
00:00 | Intro
00:25 | Chapter Begins
14:57 | Outro
Figures
Figure 1.1: Google Insights comparison of the search terms ‘economy’, ‘happiness’ and ‘GDP’ between 2008 and 2011.
Figure 1.2: Comparing ‘happiness’ and ‘growth’ over time with n-grams. Courtesy of Google.
Figure 1.3: GDP, economic growth, and happiness from 1940 to 2008. Courtesy of Google.
References
Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books, Jean-Baptiste Michel, Yuan Kui Shen, Aviva Presser Aiden, Adrian Veres, Matthew K. Gray, William Brockman, The Google Books Team, Joseph P. Pickett, Dale Hoiberg, Dan Clancy, Peter Norvig, Jon Orwant, Steven Pinker, Martin A. Nowak, and Erez Lieberman Aiden, 2010. Science.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2010/12/15/science.1199644
Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot? Some Empirical Evidence, Richard A. Easterlin, 1974. University of Pennsylvania.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/2008/04/16/business/Easterlin1974.pdf
The happiness-income paradox revisited, Richard A. Easterlin, Laura Angelescu McVey, Malgorzata Switek, Onnicha Sawangfa, and Jacqueline Smith Zweig, 2010. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1015962107
Money Doesn’t Make People Happy, 2006. Forbes.
http://www.forbes.com/2006/02/11/tim-harford-money_cz_th_money06_0214harford.html
Psychology 110 Lecture 20 – The Good Life: Happiness, Prof. Paul Bloom. Yale University.
http://oyc.yale.edu/psychology/psyc-110/lecture-20
Attributions
Chapter Text and comment section: Chapter 13: Growth and Happiness | Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That's OK
Theme song: The Freeharmonic Orchestra - RoboHobo
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March 22, 2019Robots Will Steal Your Job #12: The Scorpion and the Frog
Chapter Index
00:00 | Intro
00:25 | Chapter Begins
04:31 | Outro
References
Adapted from an anonymous comment on Slashdot.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=180945&cid=14970571
Attributions
Chapter Text and comment section: Chapter 12: The Scorpion and the Frog | Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That's OK
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March 15, 2019Robots Will Steal Your Job #11: The Pursuit of Happiness
Chapter Index
00:00 | Intro
00:25 | Chapter Begins
12:46 | Outro
References
A Treatise of the Laws of Nature, Richard Cumberland, 2005. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund. pp. 523-24.
Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book 2, Chapter 21, Section 51, John Locke, 1690.
Justifying America: The Declaration of Independence as a Rhetorical Document, Stephen Lucas in Thomas W. Benson, ed., American Rhetoric: Context and Criticism, 1989.
City of Ruins, Chris Hedges, 2010. The Nation.
http://www.thenation.com/article/155801/city-ruins
Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution, Martin Luther King Jr., 31 March 1968, sermon at the National Cathedral; published in A Testament of Hope, 1986
American Idol has consistently been the most popular show in the recent history of American television.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_watched_television_broadcast
Several acts of violence were reported on Black Friday over the course of the past few years.
Wal-Mart worker dies in rush; two killed at toy store, 2008. CNN.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/11/28/black.friday.violence/index.html
Black Friday shopper arrested on weapons, drug charges in Boynton Beach | boynton, arrested, beach - Top Story - WPEC 12 West Palm Beach, 2011. CBS.
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Chapter Text and comment section: Chapter 11: The Pursuit of Happiness | Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That's OK
Theme song: The Freeharmonic Orchestra - RoboHobo
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March 08, 2019Robots Will Steal Your Job #10: Work Identity
Chapter Index
00:00 | Intro
00:25 | Chapter Begins
04:32 | 1.1 Work Ethic, Work Utility
13:00 | Outro
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Cluster munitions are prohibited for those nations that ratify the Convention on Cluster Munitions, adopted in Dublin, Ireland in May 2008. The Convention entered into force and became binding international law upon ratifying states on 1 August, 2010, six months after being ratified by 30 states; as of August 2011, a total of 108 states had signed the Convention and 60 of those have ratified it. However, these type of bombs are still used extensively in wars and internal conflicts around the world. They are either produced and distributed by states that did not ratify this convention, or they find their way around through the black market. I could also have used another example, but I think you get the point.
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http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/docs/problems-of-relative-deprivation.pdf
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Chapter Text and comment section: Chapter 10: Work Identity | Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That's OK
Theme song: The Freeharmonic Orchestra - RoboHobo
Album art adapted by: Redd Spinks
Copyright
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