We can't have an economy where working for a living is both a privilege & a necessity.
I think the honest situation is anyone currently in manufacturing is screwed. Going forward people should not pursue that work and need to go to university for a useful degree. Even that will not stave off the inevitable when STEM fields and similar are saturated.
At that point it is population control and reduction. Or socialism will be needed on a much larger scale than it currently is with universal guaranteed incomes.
Manufacturing is over and going forward even some highly technical skilled fields will be automated. Once AI takes hold, even R&D and innovation may be automated.
I have to ask why are the elites pushing so much automation and technology? They definitely know that it will hurt many people and despite that, they are going that route. They brought us Facebook, Twitter, smartphones, etc. for a reason. Now they want to rapidly bring us automated cars and other technologies. I'm not sure that it's for the betterment of society in the long term. Who knows though.
In the end, the worship of money and power reigns supreme.
We can't have an economy where working for a living is both a privilege & a necessity.
Of course we can. Dickens didn't write entirely fictitious accounts.
I'm more concerned with living in harmony with other human beings. Others can worry about living with robots if they want. Robots are an artificial thing designed by supposedly "real" humans. The more one thinks about it, we people are seemingly more artificial ourselves.That seems like that should be your cause. Instead of complaining about the inevitable maybe you should be thinking how humans can adapt and live in harmony with robots while feeling useful and not pursuing money and material things.
Heh. Automation & information tech didn't penetrate English society at the time nearly so much as it does our world. They also suffered from real scarcity rather than the artificial scarcity we have in America. It didn't all run on credit at every level, either.
I'm more concerned with living in harmony with other human beings. Others can worry about living with robots if they want. Robots are an artificial thing designed by supposedly "real" humans. The more one thinks about it, we people are seemingly more artificial ourselves.
It's not the government's duty to create jobs. Republicans hate big government, but apparently want the government to create jobs?
Prior to the 1930s, the federal government had no role in promoting jobs. Then FDR (the uber Librull) changed all that.
So why do trump supporters expect him to "bring our jobs back"? That is the definition of government over-reach and runs counter to conservatism.
Explain.
They expect the govt to protect them against cheap foreign labor which is how they frame the issue entirely. It's mistaken, of course, because automation has taken far more jobs than offshoring. It's a convenient sop for Trump & for the post-truth era in general.
Funny that they're for government intervention when it benefits them even though in this instance subsidising redundant jobs is BAD for the US' economy. So long as the uneducated Trumpets are catered for who cares about everybody else's wellbeing?
It's not the government's duty to create jobs. Republicans hate big government, but apparently want the government to create jobs?
Prior to the 1930s, the federal government had no role in promoting jobs. Then FDR (the uber Librull) changed all that.
So why do trump supporters expect him to "bring our jobs back"? That is the definition of government over-reach and runs counter to conservatism.
Explain.