Elon Musk predicts that with the proliferation of AI, including his Optimus robots, the people of tomorrow will not have to work if they choose not to. Thanks to the automation of so much of what was once human effort, market necessities and luxuries will be incredibly cheap. By extension, people won’t necessarily have […]
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Last week the New York Times reported on labor unrest among the musicians at the New York Philharmonic, America’s oldest orchestra. Currently paid $153,504 annually, the players were agitating for a raise. The desire for more money has become particularly pressing as members of the Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles orchestras recently secured annual salary raises
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Songwriter extraordinaire Burt Bacharach died in 2023 at the age of 94. In a recent New York Times interview of Herb Alpert, the musician extraordinaire looked back to 2021 when Bacharach called. He was going into the hospital to have fluid drained from his lungs, but in between shots and draining his plan was to study
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