Quote (thesnipa @ 27 Nov 2019 16:39)
my thoughts are fairly simple tbh.
a free market + automation = self destruction.
the free market demands cheaper goods, automation delivers in spades. eventually the snake eats its own tail as jobs are eliminated and consumers along with them.
the free market was the best system by which to create a fair opportunity for all, sometime in the future the only way will be some impartial algorithm. in the mean time hybridized systems need to be created and updated in flux with the changing economy.
republicans, the former champions of the free market and fiscal conservative spending know this. and that's why they abandoned the free market for large scale farming subsidies (which now go almost exclusively to corporate* farms) and trade protectionism. they realize these sectors need to be subsidized and they see essentially free voters in coal, lead, and corn country.
why ethanol wasn't embraced more to protect against OPEC i do not understand. why jobs weren't created in coal country for solar and other clean energies idk. some of these problems could have solved themselves with little regulation or protectionist trade policies.
we're not so slowly approaching a cliff, and we're well past the point of no return. all we can do is prepare for issues to insulate the american people. UBI needs to start as a sector targeting bank account paid for by automating companies, it's a shame that the only way u can even get people to listen to UBI is to wave 1k$ in their face.
No one wants to accept being replaceable
Kick it up to 3k, boom no worries. Swap out social security (a net loss for most workers) and we can find a way to fund it