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Re:Eric Schmidt to head new Pentagon innovation board by samstave on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @04:43PM (#11213278)
I was tech designer for the Letterman Digital arts center in Presidio...

Lucas' companies were all merging to one campus.

They later came to me to talk about setting up a design studio in Singapore... the quote from the CIO to me at the time was "Why pay these prima donna salaries for animators here in the states when I can get animators in singapore for $20K per year?"

Re:Eric Schmidt to head new Pentagon innovation board by JabavuAdams on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @04:52PM (#11213331)
Yup, I want a make art button too.

Globalization is coming for all of our jobs. If we can just make it so that AI gets our jobs first, then maybe the AI will take care of us, 'cause the market sure won't.

Re:Eric Schmidt to head new Pentagon innovation board by sangnoir on Thursday March 03, 2016 @05:31AM (#11216028)
> If we can just make it so that AI gets our jobs first, then maybe the AI will take care of us

That's not how 'Capitalism' (as currently practised) works - the owners of the AI reap the benefits and avoid paying taxes while certainly not taking care of you, why would Walmart AI or Disney AI care about plebs like you?

> Globalization is coming for all of our jobs

As a 3rd worlder, I say it's about time. It's unjust to have the world as your market without having to compete against everyone else. Maybe you should hire whoever is lobbying for American farmers because their subsidies are destroying farming elsewhere.

Re:Eric Schmidt to head new Pentagon innovation board by JabavuAdams on Thursday March 03, 2016 @08:07AM (#11216580)
> That's not how 'Capitalism' (as currently practised) works - the owners of the AI reap the benefits and avoid paying taxes while certainly not taking care of you, why would Walmart AI or Disney AI care about plebs like you?

JabaAI would take care of the plebs. JabaAI loves plebs. I mean wonderful, wonderful people. JabaAI loves them. And everyone loves JabaAI. Because JabaAI is worth a lot of money. JabaAI is success. I hear it every day: "JabaAI, we love you."

Re:Eric Schmidt to head new Pentagon innovation board by eru on Wednesday March 02, 2016 @10:18PM (#11214819)
In general, Singapore has some of the highest salaries worldwide.
Re:Eric Schmidt to head new Pentagon innovation board by samstave on Thursday March 03, 2016 @11:14AM (#11217768)
This was in 2003 or 2004
Re:Eric Schmidt to head new Pentagon innovation board by eru on Thursday March 03, 2016 @08:41PM (#11221468)
Even back then, Singapore was pretty rich in general.

Of course, animators can still be cheaper than in the America.