"what if jobs are not the solution but the problem?"

[alarimer]

13. So many jobs have been lost to automation that this is probably the only answer

Unless you want a dystopian future (which is where I think we are headed, if we are not there already), where people are at each other's throats over scraps.

I do feel that the Democratic Party has been captured by Wall Street and Silicon Valley. The only answers they can come up with have to do with "job retraining" (retraining for what jobs? What replaces jobs lost to outsourcing or automation? Usually low-paid service sector jobs) or some kind of high tech work, which is largely automated.

Really, though, maybe we should look to Germany for the answers. They seem to have figured it out, more than anyone else has anyway.