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Try looking at history and see how you'll be wrong...again.
Actually....maybe you should look at history. Automation and the rate of change is accelerating vastly faster. And we've seen the rate of this change occur at a exponential level. Horses found new niches right up until something could do what they did better in almost every way. And that is what we are seeing start to occur.
We really are getting there on AI. I don't think we will have general AI soon, but we might. But I am certain we're going to have expert systems AI, and at a level that is straight up going to murder employment. There wont be many things that a human will be the better choice for. And we should prepare for that rather then trying to figure it out in the middle of it.
That was certainly confused. The "racism" in the '50's came from the Democrats, and the misogyny in the '50's came from no one at all. There was no such thing.
Would you care to explain that, especially about the misogyny? The resistance against women in the workplace, the resistance against women in politics, the refusal to pay women equal wages, the refusal to allow women to have their own credit cards - there was "no such thing"? What planet are you living on?
But my point was, Republicans today still more embody all those prejudices from the 1950s.
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there is always a reason to cut taxes. Its called giving people more spending power and small businesses the reason to invest and hire more people.
Yes, there is "always a reason to cut taxes." The reasons are greed, selfishness, and obtuseness in not understanding that there are important things that need to be tackled by government, not individuals. The idea that that lower taxes will benefit workers has been shown to be false.
Would you care to explain that, especially about the misogyny? The resistance against women in the workplace, the resistance against women in politics, the refusal to pay women equal wages, the refusal to allow women to have their own credit cards - there was "no such thing"? What planet are you living on?
But my point was, Republicans today still more embody all those prejudices from the 1950s.
Social conservatives view the 1950s as the American ideal era and therefore will deny the very real problems the era had.
There is a reason the Eisenhower era became the Johnson era. If the 1950s really were so perfect, change wouldn't have needed to happen.
... until the country runs out of rich folk to pay for the leftward shift.[/quote
Bingo! That's always the fly in the ointment for the lefties. The biggest problem that the US faces in the next 30 years is funding the baby boomers Social Security benefits and their applicable pensions. This is a mammoth challenge.
Cry as they may, the lefties and their entitlements really will have to take a back seat only because funds will be limited. So liberals can continue to fight for their causes, but just don't expect much financial backing from the US Govt because dollars have really dried up.
The natural reply from liberals is that they'll find a way to circle the wagons and usher in a new age of socialism. Just be prepared that such a system, without the input of OPM, may work but the general standard of living shrinks dramatically...think of your average Russian family in the 1980s before the Iron Curtain fell. So if we Americans now have a standard of living that is 8 on the scale of 1-10, pure socialism without OPM, will be closer to a 4 or a 5. In summary, liberals can't have their cake and eat it too.
Ok--works fine. Just give everyone back all the money they've paid into it over the last 45 years.
Some take out more than they put it, and some put in more than they take out. But if you plan on cutting off anyone who has not started collecting SS, plan on returning everything they have paid into it to support your parents and grandparents.
Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both raised taxes and had great economies. Let's just see if Trump tanks it by distributing 70% of the tax cuts to the top 1% and corporations. Oh, and the tariffs. And the subsidies to payoff industries being harmed by the Trump Tariffs. Maybe what will dry up is subsidies to those harmed by Trump's economic policies.
My neighbor retired at the end of the last school year after 30 years on the job as a school teacher. She is a republican and Trump supporter, what does that make her.
It's different technology this time around, people aren't going to be needed. Again, up until now, technology could only assist labor, but in 30 years, it's going to replace it outright
Then why do you Lefties want to keep importing more Illegals with no skills and little education?
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