Saving V. Putin

On March 4 the FINANCIAL TIMES ran an article on artificial intelligence that was not about how robots had replaced humans on our assembly lines. That replacement has already finished off a large part of our middle class. The workers were no longer needed and never would be again, but of course they could be retrained as junior financial analysts or whatever. 

It turned out that new jobs were being created but not many new jobs.

The FINANCIAL TIMES article was about a recent development in humanity's economic system. It focused on our college trained financial analysts and young researchers in the banking industry. It seems that we won't be needing them after all. The algorithms of artificial intelligence can do the same jobs better without pensions or health care or company gyms. 

Our system's goal, apparently, is to get each corporation down to one efficient human employee plus artificial intelligence. Now if we could find a way to reduce the world's population to about 100,000 people, one of whom must be Vladimir Putin . . . .  Well, we might have solved that problem already.