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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)Don't get me wrong, Universal Basic Income is going to be necessary as long as the moronic brain surgeon fucks who run our industries have the mindset that any job not automated or offshored (except their own, of course) represents Communism winning . . . or something.
I mean, never mind the fact that products and services being purchased require this thing called "a gainfully employed population with disposable income" to happen; not really seeing how capitalism survives with that being taken out of the equation.
The problem is, there are another group of moronic brain surgeon fucks (lobbied and funded by the first set of brain surgeons) known as "Republican and Third Way Congressdumbasses" that would never in a thousand years enact something that represents Konstantin Chernenko winning . . . or something . . .
See, too many people think reasonable people run America. THEY DON'T and November 8th proved it. Today's Democrats are economic Republicans, today's conservative is Dubya on steroids and hallelucinogens and today's CEOs all learned their craft from Milton Friedman, Martin Feldstien, St. Ronald Wilson Reagan and Chainsaw Al Dunlap.
They would rather see us starve and die on ice floes than lift finger ONE to help us. We're expected to just rugged individualize our own futures . . . . lack of patronage, privilege, luck, resources and time be damned, it's expected to JUST HAPPEN and if it doesn't, it's our fault for not trying hard enough and that's that. That's the way America and it's Crapitalism works. I don't like it anymore than anyone else, but I'm not one ounce optimistic that people are going to change for the better. I'm just not.
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