[ExI] USA Census Projections and consequences

[spike at rainier66.com]

John you were doing so well, right up until this line:

 

>…Advances in technology will continue to increase the productivity rate but Trump's recent changes in the tax laws… John K Clark  

 

Presidents don’t make tax law, congress does.

 

If you are interested in who is making all that crazy rich money, wait until someone somewhere makes a big breakthrough in AI, such that software can do most customer support tasks without the customers being aware they are speaking to software.  Then millions of support jobs that currently cost companies 6 to 8 bucks an hour can be supplied for pennies, and whoever develops that software will become the richest person on the planet by an order of magnitude.

 

spike

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