Steve’s Barking ; Is Elon Musk really worth what we think he is?

 Elon Musk is a genius at what he does. There I said it, even though I’m not sure he truly understands the science of his companies. He’s genius is controlling companies and selling the idea of these companies to the general public. In my mind there’s no one better.

 One’s net worth is based on worth of assets minus debt. Now as I understand it the general public has a pretty good idea of Elon’s gross worth but we the unwashed have no idea what his debt is. 

 That being said I (we) have no real idea of what Mr. Musk’s net worth really is.

Steve’s Barking; Are we all colonists ?

 This stupid blogger claims that we are ALL colonists. That can’t be, because if you read the majority opinion it’s the other guy who’s a colonist.

 My way of thinking is that we or our ancestors came from a different land. And after awhile the world grew into clusters ( tribes, then super tribes known as countries) were other tribes came along and took the land and the resources sometimes we even took over people and we made them slaves. 

 This can be considered colonialism even if you came from just over the hill.

 Oh being a colonist is a terrible thing so we and our ancestors are terrible.

Steve’s Barking; The death of education industry?

 I, this crazy blogger keeps hearing of more and more graduates of high school questioning the rationale of going to college. Thir claims that the jobs that they are going to get are on par with many new jobs that you don’t need a college degree.i

 There is also the debt of going to a private and in some cases public college. That the debt keeping the student poor for years to come after they have gotten their degree.

 There is also the fear that artificial intelligence computers will make many of the jobs now done by college graduates obsolete.

 If there is a ground swell of this thinking does one think that few and few students going to college. If fewer students wanting to go to college hurting the enrollment, perhaps many of the colleges and universities will have to close down, hurting the education industry so bad that one might say that the education industry might be on its death bed. 

Steve’s Barking; The cost of AI

 What is the cost of AI?

 Looking at the papers the cost of AI is trillions. That’s seems to be more then what is in circulation,

So we’re the Ai companies getting the money? A lot of it’s coming from the banks or so it seems. That’ s the people money.The people don’t have that kind of money and even if they did how are the borrower banks going to give the money back?

 Who is going to afford AI? So how is the AI companies going to return money to the banks and the banks in turn toward their borrowers?

 The second cost of AI is will it take away from human brain power? Will we all turn to AI to do our financial figuring? Will we turn to AI to do our thinking? Our memories and our history? Will the cost be the end of human higher intelligence giving way to machinery? Will that be the non money cost of AI?

Steve’s Barking ; Why do world leaders want other countries that are presently not theirs?

 This crazy blogger asks himself what do world leaders want countries that are currently not theirs?

China wants Taiwan! Russia wants Ukraine! US wants Canada and Greenland,

This blogger has no answer, because he’s not smart enough!

Steve’s Barking; Is free childcare good?

 This crazy blogger looks at free childcare and sees a good thing for employers. Huh

 Well child’s parents worries are less, hopefully more productive work force. Less absentee workers. In some cases the extra taxes is cheaper then the extra cost of giving employees extra pay to cover the cost.

 Is it good governance to have the tax payer pick up the cost of childcare after all taxes will have to be raised to cover the cost?

  Child caregivers are wage earners being taxed plus the fact that they will be consumers adding to the wealth of the community businesses.  Will this cover the cost of the free childcare. Perhaps not, perhaps yes, but this blogger still think it’s good business for the government.

Steve’s Barking; Don’t wait to take Social Security

 If you wait to take Social Security, you will be losing money. Within 4 to 5 years Social Security administration will only be paying at best 79% of what It’s supposed to pay. This Social Security trust fund is running out of money. There’s nothing in the immediate future that says the Social Security trust fund will be fully funded. There are all kinds of ideas on how to fund it but 99%of the ideas are wacko. The only way to really fund the iSocial Security trust fund is to end the cap on the Social Security tax and in this blogger’s honest opinion the only true way to fund the trust fund will be ignored.