The retail apocalypse is creating a 'rolling crisis' that is rippling through the US economy

[HughBeaumont]

19. Solutions are multi-faceted and, unfortunately, idealistic . . . .

. . . . in other words, "not viably based in reality" (according to the Very Serious People).

1. Get rid of outmoded corporate hierarchies that foster inequality, turnover, horrible morale and punishment. Stress cooperation over competition. Allow the workers a say in company direction; including wages, benefits, retirement and rights.

2. America at the very least NEEDS to gravitate to a multi-payer system, like, last DECADE. It's absolutely fucking IDIOTIC that a human right granted to over 1 BILLION people worldwide is somehow an American moderate's idea of a "Pony" and anyone to the right of Joe Lieberturd's idea of "SOVIET RUSSIA!!!!1!!" GEEEEEZE, GET OFF THAT. That's 80s thinking, get out of the 80s!!! My GOD, Reagan's as skeletal as his rhetoric was. This is the goddamned 21st century, START ACTING LIKE IT. Health is a human RIGHT. Anyone's "Costs need to be recouped" argument is proof positive that such a cost is NOT best handled by private corporations with upflowing financial hierarchies.

3. There needs to be a UBI for every unemployed/part time citizen, but at the very least (and if we're looking somewhere to start) for citizens older than 55 displaced by technology and unemployable. There's NO reason to send people on ice floes to die. Retirement age needs to be lowered; right now, we have a bottleneck because necessity costs overwhelming a stagnant overall wage are preventing savings from happening.

4. College education/Trade Schools need to be taxpayer funded. There is NO reason to expect our kids to finance 1/2 to 3/4 of a mortgage for the crime of bettering themselves. We're NEVER going to advance if that piece of paper is only reserved for the upper middle class and above. I'm also in the mindset that "Trades" aren't exactly the milk-and-honey job market the Mike Rowes of the world say it is. Around Ohio, I hear horror story after horror story among tradespersons involving layoffs, employment droughts, low pay, etc. etc.

Of course, none of this is going to happen as long as Americans keep being willing recipients for Republican "opportunity".