Repliesaegyptiangod (40)in politics • 7 years agoRE: How can you tell someone is smart?"Smart people are just people capable of besting their own cognitive biases." That's only one specific kind of intelligence. A computer has no self awareness, but mathematically it's capable of…chemaholic (25)in dtube • 7 years agoRE: Hey Steemit Economists: Trump Tax Plan is More Failed Trickle Down EconomicsSorry but we are nowhere close to programs writing programs on an industrial scale. It will be decades before humans are mostly removed from programming on a large scale. Even then, you will still…chemaholic (25)in dtube • 7 years agoRE: Hey Steemit Economists: Trump Tax Plan is More Failed Trickle Down EconomicsIf you think STEM degrees will be made worthless by automation then you need to think again. Automation is created and maintained by people with STEM degrees or backgrounds. All bailouts…ivan71 (25)in dtube • 7 years agoRE: Hey Steemit Economists: Trump Tax Plan is More Failed Trickle Down Economics"It's clearly a rip on trickle down... which says when corporations get tax cuts they create more jobs and pay employees more. Which is crazy."ivan71 (25)in dtube • 7 years agoRE: Hey Steemit Economists: Trump Tax Plan is More Failed Trickle Down EconomicsAnd, I wasn't restating what you said, I was mocking it. We do have a debt based economy, and you could call its expansion "growth", but in reality, the expansion of debt is not growth.ivan71 (25)in dtube • 7 years agoRE: Hey Steemit Economists: Trump Tax Plan is More Failed Trickle Down EconomicsBeing in the 18th century had nothing to do with the system they set up. It was set up that way so that wealth would not be under the central control of the State, and so the currency of the nation…davidpakman (76)in politics • 7 years agoRE: Would I take a job at corporate media? Thanks to Steemit, I shouldn't need to!I am an advocate of social democracy as practice in Scandinavian countriesivan71 (25)in dtube • 7 years agoRE: Hey Steemit Economists: Trump Tax Plan is More Failed Trickle Down EconomicsDo you run up your credit cards, then claim financial success? The only reason debt would drive growth is if our entire monetary system were based on debt... Oh wait... There is a reason the…davidpakman (76)in politics • 7 years agoRE: Would I take a job at corporate media? Thanks to Steemit, I shouldn't need to!well, I wouldn't, since I'm not a socialisthumanzee (37)in dtube • 7 years agoRE: DTube - Canadian Prime Minister CONFRONTED! - Why I Called Justin Trudeau A ScumbagSteemit does seem to have a lot of extremist right wing libertarian types. It's a space for all opinions.dch (41)in dtube • 7 years agoRE: Hey Steemit Economists: Trump Tax Plan is More Failed Trickle Down EconomicsBuddy, it's always been serfdom. Democracy just made it more palatable.brianbonner (35)in dtube • 7 years agoRE: Hey Steemit Economists: Trump Tax Plan is More Failed Trickle Down EconomicsIt really does not matter because all so-called entitlements, by the national govt, are unconstitutional!chemaholic (25)in dtube • 7 years agoRE: Hey Steemit Economists: Trump Tax Plan is More Failed Trickle Down EconomicsExcept that the lords did pay taxes to the king. Far more than commoners did. The last statement is certainly not true. Why would they have more money just because someone else did. I get that…chemaholic (25)in dtube • 7 years agoRE: Hey Steemit Economists: Trump Tax Plan is More Failed Trickle Down EconomicsHalf of our annual budget is spent on entitlement programs. I wouldn't call it a pittance. If you print more money you devalue existing dollars and they are worth less. Plenty of examples of…