Huge AI Risks-Important But Ignored:

  OPINION and ANALYSIS: Here is an extremely important risk that no one has adequately addressed.  If we are right, the government is going to need an overwhelming amount of cash, at least in the near term, and it might well overwhelm our financial system.   At that point all bets may be off about the Read More …

Musk Fair Wages War with Venezuela

OPINION AND ANALYSIS Elon Musk and Tesla can’t stay out of the news.  Tesla has apparently approved a pay package that, over a ten year period, will make Musk a trillionaire.  Which, yet again, points to the rise of oligarchy and the unfairness of pay for workers.  There’s an infinitely better way to do things Read More …

Musk Trillionaires Robot Armies: Is Socialism Needed?

  [Opinion and Analysis.] Once again Elon Musk is in the news and Tesla shareholders are once again going to have to figure out how to keep their main man on board, but the ramification of the whole situation transcend what’s going on at Tesla.  Wealth inequality, robots, political power and the future of mankind Read More …

Rao’s Solution: 2017 Explanation & Video

Here’s what’s unique about Rao’s Solutions approach to starting the march to eradicating unfairness in pay and, at the same time, reducing the unacceptable income and wealth gaps between rich, working people and the poor. These gaps are politically destabilizing, and, in our opinion have contributed the rise of fascism in the U.S. RAO’S VERY Read More …

IMPORTANT BUT IGNORED updated

  [ANALYSIS and OPINION] Note:  Unless otherwise expressly noted, all opinions in all videos and on this website are those of reasonandbalance.com and not any other person organization or political party. Note 2:  It is important to view later videos and blog posts on reasonandbalance.com to be sure that we have not amended or changed Read More …

Democracy Further Imperiled: Musk’s New Bonus

ANALYSIS AND OPINION Tesla shareholders have just awarded Musk another bonus the value of which appears to range anywhere from $23 to $29 billion.  This is probably in lieu of  the original $50 billion bonus which has run into legal trouble in Delaware.  Is democracy further threatened?  Are oligopoly and/or dictatorship here?  Or just on Read More …

Can Elon Musk Ever Be Trusted?

  ANALYSIS AND OPINION Here’s a discussion about the threats Elon Musk has made since his falling out with President Trump. It’s not looking like this video is going to get many views.  One has to wonder if that has anything to do with the fact that it is highly critical of an oligarch with Read More …

IMPORTANT BUT IGNORED

  [ANALYSIS and OPINION] Note:  Unless otherwise expressly noted, all opinions in all videos and on this website are those of reasonandbalance.com and not any other person organization or political party. Note 2:  It is important to view later videos and blog posts on reasonandbalance.com to be sure that we have not amended or changed Read More …

IMPORTANT BUT IGNORED Vol 2

[ANALYSIS and OPINION] Note:  Unless otherwise expressly noted, all opinions in all videos and on this website are those of reasonandbalance.com and not any other person organization or political party. Note 2:  It is important to view later videos and blog posts on reasonandbalance.com to be sure that we have not amended or changed some Read More …

Political Choices: Artificial Intelligence

[ANALYSIS and OPINION] We have not yet written an article on this vitally important subject.  Below are two videos we did and below that are the “slides” that provide the actual content of the second video.       Below is what the slides say: GOING FORWARD COULD THE FOLLOWING BE  MAN’S ONLY “HAPPY” CHOICE? Read More …