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In reply to the discussion: Amazon on Monday unveiled the latest plan to automate American workers out of existence [View all]HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)They'll starve and then die.
Bleak? Sorry, that's who America put in office. That's who America thinks is "great". That's who America looks up to, because they NEVER think THEY'LL be the ones on the chopping block.
To institute a Universal Basic Income would be admitting error. That's the cardinal SIN of Republican politics - admitting that everything you were taught and are teaching is wrong. And that's simply why it's NEVER going to happen . . . because that would make them (cringe, shudder, go into convulsions) LIBERAL.
Our futures are not THEIR problem. Our futures are OUR problem. You try and physically stop them, their police and military (and make no mistake about it . . . it's THEIR police and military. It always HAS been) will blood-dust you and not lose an ounce of sleep over it. That's why they are who they are; because there is not a single thing that we can do to stop it.
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