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Kevin Drum Quotes

Total quotes: 5
“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
“You should take this as completely speculative. Obviously I’m just guessing. But something about the memo didn’t seem quite authentic, and I’ve read quite a few similar ones.”
— Kevin Drum, There's something odd about that Google memo
Tagged: Google EchoChamber Memo
“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
“A lot of people desperately want to find some reason why these statues aren’t actually symbols of white terror against blacks. And you know what? There are always multiple motivations for everything. But honestly, the primary motivation here is pretty clear. They were only incidentally meant as commemorations of honorable men in a brutal war. Far more often they were erected as very deliberate messages of white supremacy to brutalized blacks.”
— Kevin Drum, Give it up, folks: Confederate statues are all about racism
Tagged: White Supremacy, Statues
“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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