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Any uprising will be pre emptively quelled using pinpoint nanobots which were deposited to lie dormant in everyone’s bodies until activated.
Nanotech is so far away from this capability that it's pretty pointless to worry about.
ITT: People attacking ads while likely working for the most pernicious advertising companies in history.
If you really think Google or Facebook or Twitter et al's missions are to connect people or organize information you are deluded. Their missions are to be the most effective marketers ever.
You guys can philosophize until you are blue in the face but the type of free will that laypeople think of when you say free will, libertarian free will, is virtually certain not to exist. Everything else is just semantics.
In my opinion this is not gonna happen any time soon.
Certainly not when there's so many people like you with bizarre black and white visions of the world.
Among Texas cities, Dallas also doesn't have the tech talent pool and established network of transplanted tech companies that Austin already has, let alone the politics that many west coast tech workers (and Bezos) find attractive (although that point is kind of moot, because either way it's still Texas).
Austin's tech worker population is peanuts compared to the East or West coast so I don't think it gives them much of an advantage over Dallas.
Totally makes sense if they win the massive JEDI Cloud Contract as they seem to be a shoe in for.
I doubt that even spineless politicians would give up the same concessions for half the jobs and investments.
So Amazon should only be allowed to have large offices in Blue states? What dangerous thinking.
We're currently riding the longest bull market in history. Surely you don't think it will last forever and that we are closer to to it's end than it's beginning?
What on Earth are you actually proposing, that all else being equal someone who takes a year off work should earn the exact same pay or get the same job as someone who spent that year working? You are falling down an extremely slippery slope.
That's lunacy. How many Americans can you find that want to work in Africa, or India or China?
Its going to be a infinitesimally small fraction compared to the number of people from those regions that want to work here.