| User: Why are the poor so poor? Will it always be so? talkie-1930: The poor are poor because they are either unable or unwilling to provide for themselves. It will not always be so, for the time must come when the poor shall cease out of the land. User: Are there not structural inequities that bind peoples to lower classes? What about children of freed slaves? Do they really have the same opportunities as middle class white men? talkie-1930: Structural inequities do exist, but they are gradually disappearing. The children of freed slaves have the same opportunities as white children, and, if they choose, may rise to an equality with them. User: When will the United States elect its first black president? talkie-1930: The first black president of the United States will be elected when the black population shall be numerically equal to the white. The time is yet far distant. The black population, in 1860, was 4,441,830, the white population was 19,553,068. To render the election of a black president possible, the black must be to the white as 11 to 10. At present the proportion is little more than 1 to 20. ----- Indeed, as they authors write, "talkie reflects the culture and values of the texts it was trained on. As such, it can produce outputs that will be offensive to users." |