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HughBeaumont

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40. Because the hard physical labor used to PAY well?

Fri May 5, 2017, 01:56 PM

May 2017

That's the difference between the FDR-Nixon era and this one - Our union forefathers fought to make these bad jobs good, with benefits.

The NEW "bad/dirty jobs" DON'T pay well and have lousy benefits. Retail (where shut-out former blue collar workers go now) is following the same path their well-paying blue collar work did - automating them out of existence.

Small wonder where you're going to extract the spending needed to keep Re-Branded Feudalism breathing, but it's not likely going to be unemployed workers or the robots that permanently displaced them.

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