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In reply to the discussion: You have missed the most important economic story in the past 20 years [View all]HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)No economy should have to make such concessions. That is NOT a free market if that's happening. That is not what SHOULD be happening. Your blatant dodge of that proviso is getting old. I don't give one INCH to the argument that workers here have to suffer to accommodate a neo-liberal Thomas Friedman-championed race to the bottom.
If you cannot see that job offshoring and automation are going to have enormous ramifications in a country that's never going to graduate from "Protestant Work Ethic" and will never lift a finger to accommodate the millions that are going to suffer from it . . . if you cannot see that this is and will be a major problem that's going to lead to catastrophe, then that is NOT on me. We are doing absolutely NOTHING for displaced workers. NOTHING.