A jobs threat worse than mass store closures could fire more than 7 million retail workers

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19. Profits start with demand. Demand requires purchasing power.

The intersection of newtechnology with enormous production capacities with the needs of producers for purchasers for products and with the needs and tremendous power of the electorate will inevitably result in shorter workdays and workweeks, longer vacations, plus some kind of guaranteed national income.

Unfortunately, the transition may be a rough, delayed one thanks to the development of mindless opposition serving the wishes of only some of the new ultrawealthy class, foolish little people whose limitations only allow them to see what they want now.

But we will get there, and I imagine sooner than those who forget that every change causes more changes imagine could be.

231 million people were eligible to vote in 2016. 90 million didn't.

But just wait until it becomes a matter of survival -- not a bunch of whining about uncertainty and resentment at overpriced furniture stores they can't afford to shop in, but grave, immediate fear because there really are no jobs that will support their families. Including those who once shopped in those furniture stores. Engineers, accountants, investment counselors, analysts of all kinds will be scrabbling for income also.