If people are being left behind, impoverished economically or even culturally, they will always be easily targeted by … - Garry Kasparov

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Often I say to myself "Really, what are we doing on this planet?" We are passing the message as well as we can, communicating our fears, our hopes. . . Day in day out, week after week and year after year, people kill each other.

Garry Kasparov

If people are being left behind, impoverished economically or even culturally, they will always be easily targeted by demagogues of any stripe, exploiting their hate and fear and making impossible promises. That impoverishment is more likely if we fight a doomed battle against automation and new technology, when what those people need most is the ambitious new tech that is the only proven way to create sustainable industries and jobs.

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