President Obama's warning about automation.

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5. Protectionism would have been good a long time ago, when we could have set labor standards

for foreign nations that wanted to export to us, or our own businesses that wanted to outsource and then sell us those products that were made by people making slave wages.

Protectionism now could be done, yes as a stop-gap, but not necessarily one that has to benefit the businesses over labor. How it will be done, if at all under Trump, will probably be horrible, because it will have nothing to do with demanding certain standards of foreign industries as it pertains to the environment or their workers. If I had to guess, I'd say it will also probably have all kinds of loopholes for American companies that want to continue to have their products made abroad, in spite of his rhetoric.

But I don't see why you would assume that protectionism couldn't have been instituted in ways that were good for the planet, and good for people everywhere.

I think what is promising here though, is that we both land at different points on the spectrum when it comes to our feelings about Capitalism, BUT that we are both reading the same writing on the wall, and both seeing BIG as an idea that's time has come. This is something Democrats need to start fighting for, and I think we can actually salvage the good of Capitalism with something like this and actually mitigate a whole lot of the bad, if certainly not all of it. I still have a couple of confusions about how BIG would be resistant to certain predatory behaviors(although I do see it helping by reducing some of the depression that makes people take certain kinds of bad risks), not to mention inflation, but it still seems like the best option I've run across.