12-18-24 Part Two - Technology And Automation

Red Eye Radio

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🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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In part two of Red Eye Radio, Eric Harley and Gary McNamara discuss the lack of perspective of where we are as a society today compared to where we were 200 years ago when it comes to technology and automation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Now it's Red Eye Radio, Gary McNamara and Eric Harley, talk about everything from politics to social issues and news of the day.
0:19.4	Whether you're up late or you're just starting your day,
0:22.5	welcome to the show from the Unidon, America Studios.
0:27.3	This is Red Eye Radio.
0:29.9	All across America and around the planet, we are Red Eye Radio.
0:32.8	He is here at Corley, and I'm Gary McNamara.
0:35.0	We're a week from Christmas.
0:36.6	Woo!
0:37.1	Yay!
0:39.3	All right. All right.
0:42.2	So, interesting call we had last hour was we were talking about automation, and it was all relating to Doge, DOGE, government efficiency, and we had mentioned that we hope that the incoming president doesn't have the same opinion of the Department of Government Efficiency as he has for the Longshoreman's Union,
1:13.4	where he talked about the fact that the savings of automation doesn't make up for the loss of jobs.
1:23.5	Right.
1:24.2	We hope there's more consistency from Trump on it.
1:29.4	We had a guy who called and tried to compare automation to slavery, which was just bizarre.
1:35.7	Yeah.
1:36.3	But, you know, I just, everything here, I want to put it under a bigger umbrella because there is a total lack of perspective of where we are as a society now compared to where we were.
1:56.4	And I'll say 200 years ago.
1:59.3	All right.
2:00.5	All right. All right.
2:00.9	Let's go back to 1824.
2:06.1	People have no perspective.
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