What if Bernie Sanders became President of the United States of America?

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89. Look at it this way.

Sure creating those automobiles will create jobs, but it will kill the horse and buggy business, as well as locomotives. What happens once all those automobiles are made? what happens to all those jobs? Maintenance would only require a fraction of all those people.



It's simple, equipment for alternative energy doesn't last forever. New solar panels, wind mills, turbines will have to be built eventually to replace the old ones. That doesn't even get into batteries and other storage mediums that have to be built and periodically replaced. Industries will spring up to support all the new systems. New homes will still need wired for them, not to mention all the retrofitting for the new equipment on old homes (such as structural improvements to support the weight of solar panels). That doesn't even take into account new industries we can't predict as a result of the changes.


Technology doesn't destroy jobs, it displaces them. People are resistant to change because of the uncertainty it brings, not because it's inherently harmful.