12-10-2016, 01:20 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-10-2016, 01:25 AM by Eric the Green.)
(12-10-2016, 12:07 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:(12-09-2016, 08:58 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Republicans with their free-market, anti social-program slogans harp constantly that Americans should "get a job" (as Trump shouted at his hecklers) and "stop freeloading" by using "MY" tax money so you don't have to "work." It has been complete bullshit for the 35 years it has ruled over us. But from now on, it's not only bullshit, it has no relevance whatever. Warren and Classic Xer, you guys are going to eat your words and then have to wash your slogans out of your mouth! There IS no fucking "WORK" anymore! Machines are taking over.
When agriculture was taken over by machines, somehow people still remained employed. When ditch digging was taken over by machines, somehow the economy came up with the jobs.
The same will happen this time around.
What will machines do that will need work from all these people being laid off by machines? Didn't you get what mikebert was saying about how much work is being taken over?
There is no future for the ideal of work, or for its excuse as a political slogan.
Quote:Quote:So the question is, what supports the economy, then? Who buys all the stuff and services that the machines churn out for us? And most of all, why should a few CEOs and a few engineers get ALL the fucking money for what the MACHINES produce? Who invented and built these machines? The workers, the people did. The people should get the rewards for this work-saving revolution.
Actually, the engineers built the machines, facilitated by the CEOs, and investors paid for the machines.
The engineers don't build machines; workers do. Without customers, a business can't build machines from investors alone; there's not enough revenue, and no return for the investors either. The CEOs do nothing but give orders and play financial games with money and people. They deserve practically nothing, yet get paid almost everything. They need to be dispossessed and their income redistributed.
Machines belong to the people. Many were invented by people working in their garage, who never saw much financial gain from their work.
Give it up. Your Austrian Tea Party economics (aka Reaganomics, trickle-down, libertarian economics, laissez faire, neo/classic liberalism, social darwinism, rugged individualism, supply side, free market fundamentalism) was always an abject failure, and it has no future at all.