If you own one of these, you eliminated a maid’s job and replaced it with a robot.

Also, do you own one of these?

If so, you’re responsible for the job loss of all of these people.

I’m sure you love your electronic toll pass, but did you even bother to think about how it would affect this guy?

Technology eliminating jobs is nothing new. Heck, some 80% of jobs that existed in the 1800’s are either completely gone or so diminished that one person can do what used to take hundreds of people. Yet, despite this, there are still many times more people employed today than there were back then.

It was once thought that the desktop computer would be a job killer, but in reality there are more jobs in I.T. related professions alone than there were that were displaced by the PC.

 The type and nature of Jobs will move.

If you want not to be replaced you have to be creative and think and apply brain in your job 

But what if your job does not allow that ? 

Prepare for multiple sources of income So that you don't  go broke if you loose your job

 

How to do that ? Again the solution is you have to use your brain and think and learn 

Today's World is bad than our ancestors' ?

In today’s world, people are probably far better than our ancestors.

In the last century, people fought incredible wars killing millions of people and did untold horrors on others. Descendants of those warring countries — Germany, Japan, Russia, UK — are far nicer than their grandpas.

In the centuries before that people would burn widows and old women (termed witches) for no reason. They would try to measure innocence of an accused by burning their skin and waiting for God to make an intervention. They would kill anyone who had a different opinion on their god by crucifying them with nails hit like a psychopath.

Invading armies would burn up an entire town with all the people if they chose to not surrender. Police were few & biased and court systems didn’t evolve the rigorous processes we have today. You were left at the mercy of a mercurial monarch who could be stupid and vengeful. Untold horrors would be committed with cruel punishments.

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We are far better than them. We are mostly law-abiding and get very little chance to break the big laws. We are good by default as most of us have very little energy to commit crimes. Crimes in major countries are substantially low compared to even 2–3 decades ago.

The reason you might see a lot more negativity is because of the abundance of social media trying to get your eyeballs. Crime gets your attention and not goodness. You try to vilify people for mistakes that you yourself might not have hesitated to commit.

If you block most of these negative media and yellow journalism and stick to statistics you can see we are becoming better than our fathers and grandfathers and their ancestors.

  

-Balaji Viswanathan

Average Student ?

Death

Reasons for Fear of Death.

It is painful to die.

I would miss this beautiful world

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Despite movie scenes of oozing blood, foaming emotions and tear-jerking punch-lines; death need not necessarily be painful.

First let us detach pain from death; and view death without pain.

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Death Sans pain

Well, ‘death without pain’ happens to all of us, roughly every 12 hours or so, when you hit the bed. As you go to sleep, your senses cut out from the rest of the world; you don’t talk to people; neither do you respond.

From your internal perspective it is exactly like dying.

But, the reason why your family is not alarmed is because they know that depending on where you are, the harsh alarm of your phone, the aroma of coffee or the high pitched explicit from your partner will wake you up.

Supposing you don’t wake up; initial shock, some pandemonium and mandatory rituals later, you would be featured on the ‘obituary’ page, with nice things written about you, chunk of which are mostly untrue.

For you, sleep and death are same; since you won’t experience the difference; but your kin and friends would.

So, the bottom-line is; death won’t make you feel bad; it is exactly like sleep. You won’t be there to feel anything.

As long as it is painless.

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As a cardiologist, I have talked to a dozen of SCD (Sudden cardiac Death) survivors. For none of them, the ‘natural’ process was painful. Most said, they went on to a dreamy state; like drifting on to ‘sleep’.

They did feel the pain, once they woke up and survived; but that pain was entirely ‘medically’ inflicted. The broken ribs resulting from cardiac massage, the burn from the defibrillator, the sore throat of endotracheal intubation; and those scores of needles and tubes plunging inside them.

But once they survived; that memory of pain fade away; giving way to the joy of survival.

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200 year ago, Freidrich Wilhelm Adam Serturner discovered ‘Morphine’ the most potent painkiller, and named it after the goddess of sleep ‘Morphia’ making sure that we can alleviate even the most severe pain. This is to reiterate the fact that one should detach the fear of pain that we automatically associate with death.

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End-Note.

Why should you be afraid of death?

It is painless.

It is like Sleep.

You won’t miss anyone (People might miss you but it won’t matter to you anymore).

Guaranteed photograph in a local newspaper.

Most people would talk good about you.

The world will not stop.

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This makes death the second-best option.

The first one of course is life.

-Tiny Nair, MD,MBBS

I am really depressed whether to continue my MSc or start preparing for a government job as my family starts pressuring me for marriage and a job. What should I do?

Don't let your parents push you around because you are a girl. If you do that, next it will be your husband pushing you around. Tell them you want to finish your studies and then get a job of your choice. Marriage should be ruled out till you are financially independent. And you choose your own life partner - don't accept any parental bullying and don't let them force you to marry someone of their choice.

Learn to assert yourself if you want to come out of your perceived depression.

-D D Rishi Ex-IRS, PhD-Law

Do you want them badly enough?

The following had been done by me over last 3–4 years while preparing for (Indian) Civil Services Exam and clearing some exams along the way: Choices minimization!

I removed unnecessary choices from my life actively. For example, in my entire preparation in 2016–17, I slept at 3:30 the entire year and woke up around 10:00 AM. This was the time when foundation of my civil services preparation was laid and spent entire day on study-table/around studies. My mind worked on auto-pilot to the extent that I knew how much “true study time” I could get by 3 PM, 5 PM, 8 PM and so on. And it was largely constant. I didn't give myself any choices, I didn't have to decide between going out or not, studying or not. My books/sources were largely fixed and I didn't allow noise. I had to study, that's all.

Only other sources of investing my time was on internet/watching football or talking to friends sometimes/family. I had no external commitments outside my hostel, I did not travel that often.

Other examples in later life (2019 attempt) were: choosing to study and sleep in the same room so that I could wake up and immediately start studying months before exam. I didn't have to juggle between study room (or library) and bed room and what not. I had a rule to not study on bed, you can't study there, you can't feel sleepy. No choice again!

Just before exam, I would lock up my phone in a cupboard and only open it 10 hours later after studying intensely. (When exam was far away, this time might become 2 hours). Want to use Reddit or check football Twitter? Good, guess what? You can't. No choice. (My only companion for entertainment was the yellow stress buster ball which I could throw around and catch in the room; below).

I didn't use any social media platform during study life as it didn't serve any purpose for me back then. I didn't have to decide between using social media or studying, it spared me the trouble.

I have a whatsapp group of close friends which I regularly used to leave before important phases of exam as I wanted to be by myself (with full focus) and save time. I didn't give myself a chance to waste time even if I picked it up because I had no messages on Whatsapp. Thank my friends for the understanding and letting me back in when the task was done.

(Of course it goes without saying that quality of studies is important but I will trust your judgement. Besides first step is to take back control of your life and start working hard for as much duration as you want).

I'm not saying I never wasted time (I had to battle gaming addiction many times) but if I intend to be with myself for say 12 hours and removed my phone for 6 hours, you'd still get a lot of time. It was my method, others can do differently. But there's no other way around discipline, it's not easy, you might hate it and hate studying. But a lot depends on how much you want those results.

Do you want them badly enough?

-Shubham Bansal, IAS, EX-RBI