2020 Democrats split in growing divide on US trade policy

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13. There are people that are just racists and bigots. They could have everything

and they will still hate.

But there are people that have economic insecurities and a vast inability to understand the true causes of their issues. Yes those people may not be the best examples of tolerant people, but as long as they don't feel screwed, they won't try to deny other people. The way that globalization is being executed is pitting working people against working people and making the arguments of the LePens and Trumps of the easier for people that have even the slightest predisposition toward them to accept without question. Companies freely move production to cheaper locales and still are allowed to sell in more prosperous countries. Maybe the USA should impose a minimum domestic content requirement on products, software and services like the EU does.

I am fully aware that robots and AI are going to keep growing. At this point, that growth is unstoppable. But maybe we need to do what Hillary suggested, look at imposing a tax on use of robots and AI that take jobs.

If you think that many people will be needed to design, build and operate robots, you simply have not seen what I have been involved with. There is a movement to have machines self-diagnose their issues and fix them and many machines are 20-30% along that path. I estimate that it will take maybe 0.03% of the worldwide population (around 2.8 million people, if that) to handle robots and AI from conception to replacement with advanced machines or software. People will even be able to do their jobs remotely, making it possible for companies to hire highly trained people in poor countries and largely bypass the high salaries of wealthier countries. That all leaves 99.07% of workers in the world with nothing to do but fume if they are not seeing benefits from the deployment of robots and AI.

You and I can hash over this for years, but I promise you one certainty, IMO, if things don't change, extremism will be worse 15 years from now, to the point of people being randomly attacked routinely because of what they look like. We have some of that happening now, but we are not even at the tip of the iceberg of what is coming.