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In reply to the discussion: Clinton Not Progressive Enough? Depends Upon What You Mean By Progressive [View all]Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)And if we are engaged in constant wars around the world, the Iraq war that Hillary urged her fellow Democrats to vote for will end up costing over $3,000,000,000,000 that's money which could have gone to the 99% but Hillary had to maintain her political viability and her position as one of the Very Serious People so we spent the money kicking the Middle East fire ant nest..
We may wind up equal but it will be the equality of poverty.
I have several granddaughters and I want them to be equal, I also want them to have a reasonable shot at a decent income. They might get the first with Hillary but she will do nothing for the second.
Equality isn't enough, my granddaughters also require opportunity. We are coming into an age where any job that doesn't require a great deal of human judgment can be done by a machine that doesn't eat, sleep or take breaks, doesn't need health care and does not require a paycheck. It's going to take a complete rethink of the means of distributing the benefits from the machines or the vast majority of humanity will be reduced to a hand to mouth existence at best while those who own the machines that do the production will have riches that would turn Croesus green with envy.