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JHan

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14. Germany is very different culturally..

Reply to alarimer (Reply #13)

Tue Nov 29, 2016, 12:10 PM

Nov 2016

We'll have to be careful with easy comparisons.

I want my party engaged with Wall Street and Silicon Valley - I just want to be part of the conversation.

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"what if jobs are not the solution but the problem?" [View all] JHan Nov 2016 OP

A universal income? What a Marxist idea. guillaumeb Nov 2016 #1

Yes Marxist :D :D JHan Nov 2016 #2

Yep. JHan Nov 2016 #8

The GOP loves to frame unemployment and/or underemployment guillaumeb Nov 2016 #19

eventually, this pretty much has to be the answer anarch Nov 2016 #3

In my view, the reason that this idea is anathema to todays Libertarian driven GOP guillaumeb Nov 2016 #4

We'll just quote Hayek right back at them.. JHan Nov 2016 #9

I respond with #8. eom guillaumeb Nov 2016 #20

humanitarian missions could largely supplant the current military-industrial profit center anarch Nov 2016 #10

And as others have pointed out, guillaumeb Nov 2016 #21

There's a quote I remember from Jacques Attali about 20 years ago (still true): hatrack Nov 2016 #5

I have always believed that providing a universal minimum income... mike_c Nov 2016 #6

thanks for sharing your story mike.. JHan Nov 2016 #12

who/what provides the revenue stream that WhiteTara Nov 2016 #7

As percentage of GDP for starters... JHan Nov 2016 #11

Thanks for the explanation. WhiteTara Nov 2016 #16

Our GDP is low, for some reasons I won't get into now, but we do produce ;) JHan Nov 2016 #17

So many jobs have been lost to automation that this is probably the only answer alarimer Nov 2016 #13

Germany is very different culturally.. JHan Nov 2016 #14

And one more point about outsourcing -- JHan Nov 2016 #15

Our new government will be "Three Branches Bush on Steroids" by Dec 2017. HughBeaumont Nov 2016 #18