Jonathan Turley
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And the book lays out a couple of critical components of that that basically mean that we have to reaffirm and magnify some of the original values that created the American republic.
That includes keeping government as local as possible, avoiding these global governance systems like EU.
It means trying to maintain what I call a liberty-enhancing economy.
And we do that by trying to not subsidize just half or more of the population, but to try to make wise decisions about what areas are likely to be homocentric and what are going to be robocentric, as I talk about in the book.
And the book actually refers to certain jobs as what I call Guinan jobs.
which are it's actually a named after the bartender on the Star Trek Enterprise.
I used to always, as a kid, marvel the fact that I and the bartender was was standing in front of a replicator that could make the perfect Romulan sunrise cocktail.
And yet she made it.
And so I call these guy and for some reason they wanted Guinan to do it.
Now, there are lots of jobs like that where people are still prefer humans.
But there are other jobs which will be wiped out by robotics.
And we need to look at that.
But what I'm afraid of is that the usual response in government is let's just subsidize dying industries and penalize industries going to robotics.
That's right.
And it's never going to work.
You're just going to burn money.
The key is to be smart about this.
And we need to lead the world in that.
You know, I talk about that in the book because I ask a question in the book that was asked by a Frenchman who went by the name of Farmer John.
And he was a Frenchman who came to our shores and wrote a book that was itself a rage success in Europe.