06-30-2016, 03:11 PM
(06-28-2016, 11:19 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:(06-28-2016, 10:54 AM)Kinser79 Wrote: Trump's own plans from his website indicate tax forgiveness to all those making less than 25K/year which is just over 2K per month or roughly anyone who make s $12.50/per hour gross. Hardly "wealthy" people unless Eric your argumentation is having a job makes one "wealthy".My point was that Trump would lower taxes on the wealthy; that's not about lowering taxes on those those making 25K.
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Again, (ha ha) the point being that there IS no such flood of unskilled labor into the country now. Trump would have to deport those already here. Will he be able to do that?
I doubt automation can be prevented; it has to be adjusted for by repealing neo-liberal Reaganomics.
Nobody wants to be unskilled labor. People are unskilled labor because they are stuck in the wrong place, they have minimal education, because they are new to the workforce, or because they have messed up their lives so that such is all that society will allow them to do. People try to get out of being unskilled labor. It's hard, unsatisfying, and often dangerous work. It has no obvious future except a lay-off.
It's worth remembering that automation that has earlier destroyed so many semi-skilled jobs has now gone to clerical and even professional jobs. So what do we do with millions of unemployed accountants, engineers, and attorneys?
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.