So Many People Voted For Both Candidates Thinking They'd be The One To Supply the Jobs

Here it is, the morning after and we're still, all, hung over with fear, dread, and loathing, because it's still way to close to call.

 So why would I juxtapose such, seemingly unrelated articles? 

Because they are surely not unrelated at all. Not when you think about this sort of thing in the stark terms of: "which would you really wish for?" And the reason for this is implied contrast here of "Assisted Reality," as opposed to truly "Manipulated Reality." 

I as this question because, in my view, it is a choice between Unbelievable Capability for everyone, or simply "Doing More With Less People." 

And of course, the main difference between them can be summed up by saying that Empowerment is what would drive the first, and only the unquenchable thirst for profit driving the second.

What would that mean?

If we had truly context sensitive AI, delivered through the kind of AR glasses that Microsoft is already deploying, in increasing numbers, to various industries, so that generally capable people can be directed to, and assisted in, accomplishing, increasingly more complex task steps, in the ever changing, process requirements, of an ever accelerating competition, to deliver a thing better than whoever else is out there trying to do the same thing back at you, whether you're tired, Covid Susceptible, or still, actually, not making a living wage; while the robots won't have to care at all.  Oh... Wait... That went off the rails didn't it.

But of course it would have to because Microsoft isn't doing any of this for empowerment, nearly as much as it is for the bigger pile of ones, and zeros, in it's bank account servers; which is also a big profit center for all of the Tech Giant.

If we truly want to have power back to the people, it will occur only when we can wrest back full control of information; in all of its aspects back into our hands. 

And even if the the Dems still, somehow, find a way to make the vastly superior popular vote, be actually reflected in the electoral count, don't think for one minute that they will want to give us that full control. They will certainly be more friendly in throwing us a bone or two, to give it a good look, but Big Money will no more be seriously challenged by them, than with that moron the other side thinks is going to save them.

One thing is for sure, though.

If the popular vote remains so hugely lopsided against the incumbent pres. but the electoral vote goes to him anyway, this will become the most fractiously divided country since the last bloody Civil war. And how we'll work through that will all of the disasters coming, as well as what we already have on our plate. is anybody's guess.

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