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Kevin Drum

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Total quotes: 3

Kevin Drum

Birthname

Birthday: October 19, 1958

Birthplace: Long Beach, California, United States

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Writer, Journalist

Total quotes: 3

“Until we figure out how to fairly distribute the fruits of robot labor, it will be an era of mass joblessness and mass poverty.”

— Kevin Drum, You will lose your job to a robot—and sooner than you think

Tagged: Robot Economics, Automation

“When robots become as smart and capable as human beings, there will be nothing left for people to do because machines will be both stronger and smarter than humans.”

— Kevin Drum, You will lose your job to a robot—and sooner than you think

Tagged: Artificial intelligence, Robots, Age of Automation

“I am sick and tired of watching folks like Boris Johnson, Marine Le Pen, Donald Trump, and others appeal to the worst racial instincts of our species, only to be shushed by folks telling me that it's not really racism driving their popularity. It's economic angst. It's regular folks tired of being spurned by out-of-touch elites. It's a natural anxiety over rapid cultural change.

Maybe it's all those things. But at its core, it's the last stand of old people who have been frightened to death by cynical right-wing media empires and the demagogues who enable them—all of whom have based their appeals on racism as overt as anything we've seen in decades. It's loathsome beyond belief, and not something I thought I'd ever see in my lifetime. But that's where we are.”

— Kevin Drum, Brexit wins

Tagged: Politics, Brexit, Donald Trump, racism, Social Class

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