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The Elitism Machine

CaseInterview.com

If a student gets into an Ivy League or equivalent-level school, the entire experience has an implicit message of elitism. You’re one of the elite 5% who got in. If you work in consulting, the elitism continues. Well at MBB, we accept only 5% of Harvard students… we’re the elite of the elite… just do the math.

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Simone Biles, Human Being

CaseInterview.com

The problem with seeing Biles only as a gold-medal-winning machine is that it strips her of her humanity and objectifies her. Elite cultures tend to have a higher degree of objectification. Objectification is when we see someone (or ourselves) being defined solely based on what they (or we) can produce.

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Business Does Not Need the Humanities — But Humans Do

Harvard Business

As the girl told it to Osnos, “During the game in which I was playing the program, everyone around us was taking sides: Team Human and Team Machine.” We are all, it seems, splitting into “team human” and “team machine.” There is No Team Machine. ” The contest is always between humans.

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Meaningful Work Should Not Be a Privilege of the Elite

Harvard Business

Participating in it is essential to the good life – and no elite minority should have a monopoly on that. At their best, today’s increasingly capable machines enable and empower people to collaborate more effectively, and they make learning from experience scalable. Imaginative problem-solving is part of human nature.

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How Automation Will Change Work, Purpose, and Meaning

Harvard Business

For centuries, elites in societies from Europe to Asia aspired to absolution from gainful employment. and Europe as partly a result of the chasms between elites and the rest of society. When our machines release us from ever more tasks, to what will we turn our attentions? It could equally be leveled at us.

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Reader Asks "Without a Job, Who Can Afford to Buy What Robots Make?"

MishTalk

Just watch this fascinating video and think about it for a moment: Would we be better off or worse off if this machine didn't exist? The elites don't comprehend it. Emphasis his, video follows. The problem is not technology. Brad writes.

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Robots About to Take Away 18 Million German Jobs, 59 Percent of Germany's Work Force?

MishTalk

The study claims that 59 percent of Germany's work force could be replaced by machines and software in the coming decades. The news is almost as bad for mechanics, machine drivers and mechanical technicians, over two thirds of whom are set to have their jobs taken are from them. Machine becomes master It is not all bad news, though.

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