Raw LLM Responses

I have been researching various solutions here and there for our current broken systems. I recently read a book called, "The Third Pillar." I pile this book's recommendations on top of others I found. Since the 60s or so, governments lost legitimacy since the stagflation after the 1970s. It is easy to copy an old technology to experience growth, but once you are at the forefront of technology, pushing the production barrier out takes a lot of investment into technology for low gains. Since the 1970s or so, most of the energy revolutions have been founded, and we have only been making marginal improvements since then. We used to experience high growth rates of 6+%. However, once we actually had to start inventing new technologies, our growth fell to around 2%. Apparently despite the amazing advances in computers, they have not contributed much to our GDP = Bottom\_line. Sure, we have self-check outs. However, those checkouts don't cause people to buy more stuff at stores. They don't push people faster through the checkout line. They just take less workers. Most of the robots in amazon haven't increased the speed of a warehouse (much). They just take less workers. Well, you know what happens when growth is slow, and the people on top want to push ahead of reality? They find creative ways to extracting wealth from the poor. Hence, our middle class is disappearing. No, it didn't go to China, although some did. Most of it was lost to automation, who gets the value from automation? Workers? No, Investors get it. You know, the rich. ​ It is not bad in a high growth period when market shares are effectively non-zero-sum. However, during slow growth, it looks like total market shares don't move much. So, instead of developing more market, it is more strategic to take market share from another business. This is the effect of the zero-sum or positive-sum game. Suddenly, the wealthiest businessmen are not moderate; they are cut-throat. ​ Anyway, I do