Will always be fond of Southland Mall. My gramps used to work at the Ice Skating rink when it was there. Mom worked at Sears Roebuck, LaPlayla ; aunt's and uncles worked at Sears automotive. I think at 15, even I worked at Walgreens for a quick minute.

Hopefully Amazon doesn't wipe out all Malls. Social media cannot effectively replace actual physical socialization. It's a changing world, but I'd like to see it change for the better.

Hell, I wonder how many words I'm allowed to type here. Let's find out, shall we?

Today, 25% of all world production is done by automation. It is forecasted that by 2055, 50% of all world production will be done by machines, automation and AI.

From the beginning of time, til 1800, we homo sapiens did not number one billion. We first hit a world population ~in 1801. Took just a little over a hundred years to hit 2 billion in 1927. 3 billion in 1945.

Today we are quickly approaching the 8 billion people mark. By 2055 we will probably be +10 billion.

It is no stretch of the imagination to see a world population of 24 billion people, -and because of advancements in technology, robotic automation and AI-, only 100 million jobs. Are the 23.9 billion who don't work; -who can't work-, are they to be considered derelicts, losers, moochers or get-overs?

No.

We went from Hunter/ Gatherer, to Agriculture, to Industrial (and Industrial Military complex), to today's Financial-based economy, into tomorrow's Science-based economy. We will eschew the concept of money entirely; out of necessity.

There's a big rock headed for Earth. We finally have the technology to mitigate another mass extinction event; to not go the way of the dinosaur. Yet we're self-distracted by our politics; our money.

You need to start teaching your children that THEY OWN NOTHING. Nobody "owns" ANYTHING; not even the atoms in your body. You are merely the current user of those atoms, and will one day relinquish them -back to the Universe from whence they came.

If we could all get on the same page about that, then Humanity will truly hit it's stride.

Hey, you read it all. Now let's see if it posts :0)