Ford Plans To Cut 8,000 Jobs?
So if you are making petrol engines for Ford well your time working for them is over soon. Of course this is a ruse because A.I. can formalize this process any way where you don't need humans anymore to make or design them. The white collar jobs are going away just like the blue collar ones in the past.
The electrical revoultion is a sham also and public transportation is going to be the main mode of getting around. You can summon a private vehicle for use if you can afford it otherwise your going to use public owned mass transportation vehicles i.e. State sponsor and paying a fare for it's use like you do on a bus or train now.
All of this will happen when the new electronic currency is put into place with a cashless society. Your 5/6g phone with a cash app will be your wallet that stores all information on you by digitizing it on government server clouds that record everything you buy sell or trade with period.
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Ford declined to comment on possible job cuts, saying that it’s focused on reshaping the organization to capitalize on the growth of electric vehicles. “As part of this, we have laid out clear targets to lower our cost structure to ensure we are lean and fully competitive with the best in the industry,” Chief Communications Officer Mark Truby said in a statement. -Bloomberg
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While I am not a fan of EV's and think the push to go electric is ill advised if not totally stupid, I can't blame Ford for trying to stay competitive by managing their work force. The alternative is to be unprofitable and going out of business.
Since you added in your obligatory electronic money comment, I am still waiting for your answer to my question from a few months ago. Do you use credit or debit cards, buy anything online, frequent websites that have paid advertising or do any of the myriad of other things that put your information out in the public, thus the gov't, eye? Do you have a Sams or Cosco membership that tracks your purchases? Perhaps a grocery store loyalty card that gives you discounts? Do you own a vehicle that is registered with the state you live in? Have you purchased a firearm from an FFL dealer? If you do these common things, it is a simple task to find out pretty much everything about you and your spending habits. I don't like it but unless I want to live in a cave with only a bicycle for transportation, be off the grid for power and water, and use only the barter system, I'll have to put up with it. Electronic money is already in use by major credit card companies and if it becomes more prevalent It will probably still be managed by major financial institutions. I am sure the gov't has and will have very little difficulty accessing that data. So I guess your warning is about a decade to late. Bob
I just saw a blurb from Congressman Massi (sp?) grilling the Buttajudge feller. The average American house uses 1800KW to air condition their homes. If you plug in an electric vehicle that vehicle alone will consume four times as much as the A/C does. Where is all this electricity going to come from?
Look at the Japanese energy consumption for the average family for clues. The Country is going to see the big crunch soon,water usage is already in peril in many places. The standard of living is going to drop drastically. Big homes are going to be dinosaurs soon.
As for bob's analysis yes the frog has been cooked and The government is going to turn to fascist Corporations and A.I. as their saviors. Bob my Computer here at home tracks everything I do now and they sell that data to the highest bidder. Cash is used to avoid taxes and that is the last bastion they will destroyed for their prosperity to capitalist socialism. Only politicians will give out tax free zones to the insiders. Canada is the best example for this scenario,
Knowledge and the infrastructure to create it like those 2 nano chips is the keystone now. Putin was right when he said who ever gets there first (A.I,) mastery will rule the world. Only a nuclear/biological war that pushes it all back to the stone age could change it now.
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https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/the-water-wars-come-to-the-suburbs
The best gossip you’re likely to hear in Rio Verde Foothills, Arizona, is about water. Last month, when a few residents stopped by Karen Nabity’s sprawling, high-ceilinged home, the talk quickly turned to wells.
“My neighbor two lots to the east of me just got done putting in a nine-hundred-and-sixty-foot dry hole,” John Hornewer said.
I will buy one of those huge military diesel generators to power the house. Or run the PTO off of a diesel tractor... You would think the experts could do the math with the KW use.. look at Texas.. they are running low on electricity now with the heat wave.
Cashless like "Max Headroom"? Yeah that'll happen.
EV uses more computer chips, right? Unless Ford makes their own supply they'll have to slow down production line so less workers anyways. So cutting 8,000 people soon is just good money saving tactics. Besides there will be less people being able to afford a EV there will be a job loss anyways.
I'm looking forward at when electricity provider jacks up the rates and EVs "catching" fire for the insurance.