Nervous Habits - Episode 23: Automation in America: Self-Check-Out Counters, Self-Driving Cars, and Sex Robots; and The Crippling Cost of College: Why Federal Financial Aid Is A Scam

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Nervous Habits - Episode 23: Automation in America: Self-Check-Out Counters, Self-Driving Cars, and Sex Robots; and The Crippling Cost of College: Why Federal Financial Aid Is A Scam

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Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by long-time friend and mechanical engineer, Stefanos Axios. They have a spirited and comprehensive discussion, spanning issues including: --The jobs that automation will displace that humans currently have, and the jobs that will be created by the new technology… --Why some jobs can never be able to be effectively carried out by robots… --How the sex robot industry is shaking up the automation field… --How the increasing amount of federal financial aid that is allotted to students has actually made college more expensive… --Why a comprehensive student loan forgiveness plan would be an inadequate solution to a worsening problem, and finally… --Why cryptocurrency has the potential to spread like wildfire in the coming decades.   Segments: 3:50 - Automation and the Future of the 9-5 Job 31:20 - The Cost of College 59:45 - Cryptocurrency   Where To Go To Get More Information: 1. The Four Hour Workweek, by Tim Ferris 2. Wall-E (2008) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910970/ 3. People Protesting Self-Check-Out Lines https://futurism.com/people-refusing-self-checkout-kill-jobs 4. Live Video Streams of People Eating Meals in Korea https://www.today.com/food/what-mukbang-inside-viral-korean-food-phenomenon-t123251 5. Her (2013) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/ 6. Ex Machina (2014) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470752/ 7. Westworld (2016 - Present) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0475784/ 8. Sex Robots Blamed for Birth Rate Crisis in Japan https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8286324/sex-robots-birth-rate-japan/ 9. Why College Is So Expensive In America https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/09/why-is-college-so-expensive-in-america/569884/ https://www.businessinsider.com/why-is-college-so-expensive-2018-4 10. Cost of College Over Time https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/05/18/cost-of-college-the-year-you-were-born/39479153/ 11. Private College Tuitions, 2019 https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities 12. Middle Income Student Assistant Act https://www.congress.gov/bill/95th-congress/house-bill/11274 13. The Bennett Hypothesis https://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/18/opinion/our-greedy-colleges.html 14. Student Loan Debt Statistics https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/student-loan-statistics-2019-n997836 15. Senator Bernie Sanders' Student Loan Debt Forgiveness Plan https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/24/bernie-sanders-2020-student-loan-debt-forgiveness-plan-1296863 16. Senator Elizabeth Warren's Student Loan Debt Forgiveness Plan https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2019/06/17/elizabeth-warren-student-loan-debt-forgiveness/#62b763195e7b https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/22/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-student-debt.html 17. Cryptocurrency https://www.cnbc.com/cryptocurrency/ 18. Coinbase https://www.coinbase.com/

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