The Right wing is a Ship of fools. I don't know how to explain all of it.
We're approaching the technological singularity and the only thing I can think of for Working people to hold on is to BUY STOCKS because Guess what? Wall street is the only one benefitting from this RIGGED GAME. I have found Motley fool inspite of the mockery to be a pretty decent guide.
See right now I see the elderly 60 something vote Shifting Right especially whites becuase "with all these darn thar benefit programs no one dun want to work anymore"
and all I can think is where were you when computers were invented? Have you see what happened?
In my SHORT lifetime of 28 years I used to be able to Stop at the Local Mcdonalds Get a bite to eat, then cross over to blockbuster video and Check out a dozen movies for "party night"
What happened? Now when I go to McDonalds there's a RedBox machine full of movies I don't want to watch but plenty of people have fun with them while I um...well I'm not going to confess what I do because Past experience leads me to suspect Talking openly about such activity might not be welcome on KOS. I'd have to read the FAQ and all again.
I have a Netflix though as well. Right now "In treatment" is checked out.
Amazon is about to further robotize it's work force. Translators? Well due to machine translation their jobs will turn from Translators to Proof readers of Machine Translated documents.
Cashiers? instead of 20 or 30 1 will manage 30 self checkout lines.
I mean it's coming, and it's inevitable. the working class is going to be essentially phased out through no fault of thier own.
Technology is only speeding up and in spite of what the Anti capitalist and Socialist are saying my take on things is that Capitalism has become a Victim of it's own succcess. Because under that Frame work it's a lot easier to explain what;'s going on.
it advanced so fast it left a lot of people REELING and in the Dust and they don't have the speed or time or ability or money to retrain THAT quickly
So if you aren't a Stockholder in these corporations that are just Hemoraging jobs you're losing.
And believe me walmart and the older dinosaur corporations want to. The whole Reason Amazon has been able to do this is it's newer
amazon is the face of the NEW capitalism.
meanwhile the water infrastructure is collapsing and just underneath the surface we have real issues that need to be addressed.
so I guess what I'm getting at is I'm annoyed. I'm annoyed that the elderly white vote is growing skeptical of democrats because "GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS WILL PAMPER PEOPLE and NO ONE WANTS TO WORK ANYMORE"
wahh. So what? The Economy at this point NEEDS less LABORER's than it used to and OVER TIME we can Produce the same amount with LESS people.
given this fundamental reality then it makes sense to Shift the guiding economic ideology of our culture. Work is no longer essential for absolutely every member of society. Not everyone needs a job, the world will keep on turning even with a large active unemployed population.
I just needed to rant though. These peopel lack imagination. The old folk are still in "NAFTA TOOK OUR JORBS" mode. Yeah? Foreign labor out priced Programmers here in the us. COMPUTER PROGRAMMERS.
ROBOTS are erplacing many of your jobs. They didn't go to mexicans! The agricutlrual sector jobs that WHITE Joe everydude will NOT do is what they picked up.
http://www.npr.org/...
That OLD NAFTA paradigm is ARCHAIC. and i'm not saying we shouldn't renegotiate nafta but that world has ZOOMED Past, we're in a world of outsourcing labor where there's an oversupply and glut of it world wide
and companies have figured out ways around national boundaries to hire foreign labor especially with the internet in the Fabled "internet age"
so We really do need to start thinking about Socialism and things like a universal basic income
http://io9.com/...
Loosely Translated that "No one wants to work anymore" is not true of "everyone" and to the extent it is true of "anyone" It no longer matters.
Humanity is becoming largely obsolete through no fault of their own.
That Fewer people want Jobs is Truly no longer relevant.