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Re: Piketty, Now on Film
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
To say that tech will create more jobs than it removes is to give intellectual cover to the argument "things will be just fine if we simply let the market do its work." That's the libertarian angle here.
And I don't trust your party to do anything useful any more than I trust the GOP to do it. I'm of the opinion nothing will happen on jobs or climate until its too late and we've a calamity. Historically that's how everything seems to work.
We have two shit parties owned by corporations. Blue, red - either way, you get a bag of shit. Trump may be a huge gift. By accelerating our disintegration, he may have taken us to the bottom faster than we'd ever get there otherwise. And it appears that until we really hit rock bottom, we won't even think about serious future issues, let alone develop policy for addressing them.
And for purposes of abstract discussion, I'd like to dispense with the tech-will-provide-for-those-it-displaces argument.
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I would find it easier to take you seriously on this issue if you had supported the ACA, which aimed to decouple people's healthcare from having a full-time job.
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