"I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that — it does a lot of damage. But, it is very effective when it comes to politics. Sympathy, I prefer more than empathy."
I think the full context is even more damning. He would have rather pitied a person that try to understand their pain.
A country that cares about their future will invest in their children. It's another version of planting a tree that you won't enjoy the shade of.
Already 6% of men and 5% of women die before claiming their social security, and the US lifespan average dropped. Gen-X grew up convinced they might not get the income they paid into, so I imagine younger generations are going to love this.
The real question is are they going to change the minimum age to start claiming with penalty. If they bump that up too... it will be ugly.
People who own a home will adjust the prices to try and sell them. Not willingly, and not quickly, but if they have to change they'll take a hit. Who won't sell are all the corporations that bought up everything when it was a hot market going up. They can afford to sit on an unoccupied house for a long time waiting to at least recapture the investment they made.
There are already religious chatbots out there, and not surprisingly they're not that great. Combination of LLMs that questionably stay on topic and are accurate mixed with the data of religion that has numerous fallacies and inconsistencies - what could go wrong?
It's interesting to look back at word origins. "Antifa" is borrowed from a shortened version of a German word for "anti-fascist" and was first used by a short-lived party to counter the German movement towards that ideology. Republicans/GOP/MAGA would like it to be short-lived here too, and like "woke" have hijacked the word to mean something it never did. Just like "woke", it's telling to ask them to define or explain it - they can't, it's just a rallying soundbite.
The distance between what is said and what is known to be true has become an abyss.
We are just the next casino.
"Yes, we've had previous discussions with experts on the dangers of pursuing AI growth so recklessly. But lord, the profits! We had no choice but to keep going."
Great revision of that episode.
I would argue that Q was just using his abilities to show Picard a what-if, knowing the conclusion. However, Star Trek has also shown that multiverse/alternate time does exist there, so it could have easily been such a horror of two different Picards intertwined, and what we see in the episode isn't at all the bad life it's made out to be for that Picard.
Then I think, what about all the crucial turning points centered around Picard? If this episode was before Best of Both Worlds then I'd say the Enterprise in All Good Things where Riker is insane saying the Borg are everywhere is this same timeline.
It was already both, but I get your point.
That seems to be true of a lot of ideas that are deemed "socialist". Invest in people's welfare and it will be magnified.