2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders, Automation, and the Fate of the US [View all]Peace Patriot
(24,010 posts)...amazing essay by Paul Thompson.
WE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT'S COMING. Automation is coming for your job and virtually all jobs RIGHT NOW. It is going to happen in the next couple of years. All the incremental automations we're seen at bank ATMs and supermarkets and robot cars are going to escalate dramatically in an unstoppable way, and the only question that remains is: Are the uber rich going to suck up all the profit unto themselves and leaves millions and millions of people out of work and on the street, homeless and starving, OR, are we going to create a socialist bottom-line income for all, as they are experimenting with in Europe and Canada, to tide everybody over as this very different economy is created?
AND who, of Sanders vs Clinton, is best suited to help us face this imminent economic crisis of epic proportions?
Thompson says Sanders, and he explains why in this essay. Basically, incremental change won't be worth shit. Big change, as to income inequality and who owns all the wealth, is essential to prevent chaos and a dystopia from which most of the human race may never recover.
It's a long read but every paragraph is important. It's scary, but, like climate change, we gotta face it or else...
And, by God, we need Bernie Sanders' "Yes We Can" to bend the forces of technology toward a decent life for all.
Thank you, Paul Thompson!