Day After Employees Vote to Unionize, Target Announces Fleet of Robot Workers

[HughBeaumont]

17. If Automation isn't going away, Capitalism sure will.

You know, unless the wealthy have some fantasyland way of making a buck without that pesky "consumption", which no one can do now they've been displaced and have no job prospects and no hope because they can't afford the mortgaged education Dumberica thinks its citizens have to get.

"Oh, but automation's a blessing in disguise, because they'll HAVE to give America a guaranteed minimum income!"

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Corporate purchased Washington doesn't have to do shit and isn't GOING to do shit in that regard. It's not happening. Conservatives exist in both parties in 2015 and they all think this is a meritocracy. Democrats are now low-grade Republicans and Republicans are now George Dubya on Steroids. Get that notion out of your heads, it is never going to happen.

By some lottery miracle the political will exists to enact it; how, exactly, would it get paid for with scant revenue coming in because no one can work? Are we going to all of a sudden disproportionately tax wealthy and corporations like we should have been doing all along? We've seen the ugly result of giving these motherfuckers free money . . . they perform stock buybacks and lay off their workers.

Oh, and if you think the millions upon millions of unemployed in retail, manufacturing, medical, warehouses, industry, automotive, etc, etc, etc doesn't affect YOU, white collar worker, THINK AGAIN.

If no one has a paycheck coming in, guess what:they aren't buying your services or your funds or seeing you for loans/mortgages . . . forget about them buying stocks, doing taxes, forget about the investments in R & D, forget about all of that. Demand's going to dry up faster than an ice cube in the Sahara and you might as well take a goddamned lighter to that MBA or PhD, because it's a-gonna be worthless.

But hey, just ignore me. LAUGH AWAY. "Ha ha ha ha, Luddite! Because America has invented everything they need already, right? HA HA HA HA HA!" What, you think Joe Sixpack's going to invent his way out of this mess? It doesn't work that way anymore - most invention is performed in corporate laboratories with mean-ass patent attorneys in 2015. You know, unless Joe Sixpack is somehow rich with lots of 3-D printers at his disposal. Oh wait, who's going to buy his product?

Any light bulbs going off in your heads yet?

Laugh gleefully while some of you think that this is the event that's going to finally lead to the Democratic Socialism we all want. They couldn't be more incorrect on this. This is going to lead to a dystopia that will make the Great Depression seem like a two-car accident. It's going to be horrific, there's going to be a shit-ton of pain, there's going to be starvation, there's going to be unneeded deaths and it's going to be biblical.