Sentence examples for useless class from inspiring English sources

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Meanwhile, the redundancy of labour, supplanted by efficient machines, will create an enormous "useless class", without economic or military purpose.

He just wishes to provide a check on capitalism's tendency to create a useless class of parasitical rentiers.

Luxury is a form of waste that arose to confer status on an essentially useless class, he argued in "The Theory of the Leisure Class", published in 1899.

Harari calls it "the rise of the useless class" and ranks it as one of the most dire threats of the 21st century.

Earlier this year Yuval Noah Harari, a lecturer at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, warned that AI will trigger the "rise of the useless class".

Harari predicts the rise of the useless class: humans who don't know what to study because they have no idea what skills will be needed by the time they finish, who can't work because there's always a cheaper and better robot, and spend their time taking drugs and staring at screens.

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The state of Texas told Isis Brantley that she needed to spend thousands of hours taking useless classes and thousands of dollars on useless equipment before she would be permitted to teach hairbraiding at her own school.

Mr. Leeds's adaptation lands bull's-eye thrusts at the useless upper class and bribe-hungry politicians.

Obviously it'd be useless if your class is really noisy, but if they're not, the recording would also be useful for future studying for tests, etc.

A 1930s comedy, Television Talent, is dismissed as "useless" for all classes of cinema.

For white, middle-class, male, useless people — who have just enough family context to not be crushed by poverty — they become failsons".

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