Bernie and Trump are wrong on Amazon

[JCanete]

24. sure, and I embrace technology, and one area where I understand Sanders but disagree with him,

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is that he is trying to slow us down where change is doing catastrophic short and midterm damage to the workforce, which totally makes sense, except that change can't be stopped and shouldn't be in opposition to actual progress. The real solution is something like UBI. We need to appreciate what could be but should not be a dire reality, that there is not going to be enough decent paying work as time moves on to sustain people. We need to move beyond the notion that a living is earned, because it doesn't have to be. It can be a right, and it needs to be a right.

I don't know if he isn't ready for this idea or if he thinks its still too early to get people on board, so instead he's trying to improve the minimum wage rather than advocating for a basic income guarantee, but in the mean-time, that's a good platform because it at least does good. As far as Amazon goes though, what is Sanders proposing that is actually critical and corrective of the good things it does? He's talking about the negatives, and the exploits it has taken advantage of. Trump...well we know why trump suddenly cares...its personally related to his bank account...and that's all he needs to know about it.

As to the upsides of technologyand progress, you do recognize though, that supply side, just as an example is raping the planet. It is consuming and producing waste and biproduct at an enormous rate that the planet can't sustain, so sometimes it pays to put on the breaks, or to at least try. We are at an interesting point in history where our advances will either kill us or save us, but that outcome is far from certain, and I have less and less faith in an uninformed and intentionally misinformed public's ability to push us in the right direction.