People need to quit focusing so much on their stupid lawns.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

30. I thought you were offering up the RWer argument as sarcasm at first.

But you're serious, aren't you?

That's akin to saying 'No, we can't go to single payer healthcare, because it would eliminate the health insurance industry, and all those jobs!'

Or 'No, those automated looms are going to put a lot of weavers out of business! We can't start making cloth with automated machines!'


Or, more pointedly, 'No, we need to keep mining coal and oil and gas, and not switch to solar or wind, because it will put all those coal miners and oil and gas field workers out of business!'

The solution to putting people out of work is to find them work doing other things, not to cling to the very things that are destroying us simply because they keep people employed in some specific type of job now.