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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders, Automation, and the Fate of the US [View all]Response to Kang Colby (Reply #28)
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HOLY TOLEDO! If ever I would agree to a literacy test for voters, it would be this...
Peace Patriot
Mar 2016
#1
Anyone can guess what the future's going to look like a decade or two from now.
randome
Mar 2016
#17
Services liberalisation with its cross border data flows will lead to job losses in deveoped countri
Baobab
Apr 2016
#74
We do have good ideas what is coming because much of it is already here. We just dont know it.
Baobab
Apr 2016
#71
Thanks for this. I have only read part but plan to continue. I do have a question
rhett o rick
Mar 2016
#2
Buying and selling what? Not labor because it wouldnt be needed people only have so many possessions
Baobab
Apr 2016
#73
It's not that they want us to die, but we have resources that they think they are entitled to and
rhett o rick
Apr 2016
#76
They've borrowed on our infrastructure, taking wealth from our retirement plans, taken our
rhett o rick
Apr 2016
#87
Single payer health care may result in renewed hiring but ONLY single payer would
Baobab
Apr 2016
#67
The past two decades have seen the largest reduction in global inequality in human history
Recursion
Mar 2016
#13
He actually proposed a 6.2% increase for employer payroll taxes....#berniemath on display. N/t
Kang Colby
Mar 2016
#25
A decrease is better than nothing...it gives time for workers to be re-trained.
Kang Colby
Mar 2016
#28
So "Bernie doesn't understand basic economics"? 170 economists say you're wrong ...
Scuba
Mar 2016
#50
When you call Medicare and Social Security "free stuff for life" you're exposing yourself.
Scuba
Mar 2016
#61
We aren't talking about Medicare or Social Security are we? Both great programs that need protection
Kang Colby
Mar 2016
#62
Don't mention that employers would save by not providing healthcare to employees
BernieforPres2016
Mar 2016
#58
Been saying this for years but NAFTA, NAFTA, NAFTA...started by Bush, signed by Clinton sooooooo
Jitter65
Mar 2016
#41
America may be forced into growing up and facing things like this very quickly.
Buns_of_Fire
Mar 2016
#34
Thank you! Bernie Sanders, Automation, and the Fate of the US, this is an excellent essay that ...
slipslidingaway
Mar 2016
#47
Manufacturing is more and more a capital and technology intensive enterprise,
cheapdate
Mar 2016
#51
Coincidentally, I design control systems for automated manufacturing processes.
cheapdate
Mar 2016
#54
How come the revolution aims to increase income but doesn't go further into ELIMINATING income?
CalvinballPro
Mar 2016
#53
Robert McChesney and John Nichols: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy
cantbeserious
Apr 2016
#82