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Crutchez_CuiBono

(7,725 posts)
6. yeah..
Sun May 6, 2018, 12:09 PM
May 2018

No. I'm not embracing anything like that. We have smart college kids graduating and can easily handle that but factories were where folks w GEDs went if they wanted to and still, through hard work, had a middle class American life. The American Dream. Just bc you have a quick cut out answer doesn't mean that adaptation is just as easy as what you said. America belongs to all of us. It's our birthright and not something that can be parsed out by a few percent of the population that are so greedy they 'seemingly' can't help themselves. People want to work. Automation is for the birds. Personally thats how I feel and it's not a debateable question beyond what I've said. Automation does NOT have to happen. Funny how Chinas middleclass growth is known and understood and accepted by industrialists. Those were our jobs. And greedy Americans sold them overseas bc they could. We made those things here and had established enough regulations to do it much cleaner than China. But somehow now, it's the American worker that has to over come more obstacles to get yet another set of jobs, that if automation is allowed to happen, will happen to your job too. We live in a society. It's not every man for himself. That's why we have government and basic rules. Legal and economic. The economic rule of' faster bigger' profits are possible doesn't mean that's what's good for American citizens. Corp law needs reform badly.
Meanwhile dt doubles visas for skilled workers bc they "can't find any here." Always a quick answer from corporate America and those who are it's undying apologists.
People need jobs now...not after going to yet more college based training. People already dont go to college bc it's unreasonable economically, or they just choose not to. that's their right. The American worker doesn't have to exhaustively keep adapting to run away ideas from Corp America, bc it's the shareholder argument of the day. Good grief.

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