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Sure thing boss

Ehhh, everyone is obsessed with food and consumerism. This is the bread part

Not being lame and pathetic means putting a rug and art in your house

Not a terrible idea but

The problem here is thinking the U.S. government exists to make intelligent decisions that will help us

Oh ok, hundreds of millions of people if not billions of people are "extremists" for not wanting to have their lives entirely upended by AI? For a relative few people to make an extreme profit from it.

The ones pushing the AI project so tenaciously on everyone are the ones with an extreme position, so much so that people are united against AI, across such culturally divided political lines. Anti-AI / Anti-data center is one of the only political issues where the regular population is in near unanimous agreement.

News, "The armed deputies known as law enforcement will ride in to defend the "extreme" actions and worldview of the AI oligarchs."

AI will then crush the lives of people who do "law enforcement," too. The boot will also step on lawman.

Health insurance is a scam, yes, it's part of the bigger scam called capitalism, which is the privatization of profits and socialization of losses. A private "savings account" is not escaping the scam, it is at best side-stepping it, into a different method, even less efficient, where everyone in society just does (and pays for) every little thing on their own. Why don't we all just pay individually for each unit of oxygen we breathe?

Something better would be simply that we find a way to efficiently pay for everyone, as much as possible, to have healthcare (among a number of other things). Until something better can exist, this is "public insurance."

So you spent 10 years studying philosophy and responded to my comment, "Critical thinking and empathy are important, and a lot of people don’t have much / aren’t very good at it" (hmm a LOT of philosophers would agree with this and say this is a reason more people should study philosophy) with: "how do you measure it?" and "how do you force people to do it?" -- when I never said it could necessarily be measured or that it could/should be "forced." I also never said people need a liberal arts degree, which you also misunderstood. Then you are basically saying to me, "it's just your opinion, man!" as your arguments. While making your own "opinions, man."

Sure, Jan.

A lot of people have alluded to this already, but I'll simplify.

"We" are not OK with it. "We" are not the ones making the decisions

If you said it's really difficult and unlikely, ok. But people are telling you that they have these jobs and you also admit they exist.

Yes it's rare but it exists and I think that was the point of OP, looking for a way to break into it somehow

is probably not critical at all, from my perspective.

So you are just gonna say that what i said is "probably" not a critical thought? That doesn't sound like a very critical thought, itself!

You made a statement that critical thinking doesn't mean anything, but more likely you just are unfamiliar with it.