04-05-2020, 04:27 PM
(04-05-2020, 01:14 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(04-05-2020, 06:36 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: ...as for people like Classic X'er -- I frankly hope that they stay busy with well-paid work and come to the realization that Donald Trump was an unmitigated disaster as a political leader.
The so so businesses, at least they created jobs. In a world more and more automated, more people are excluded from the current method of dispersion of wealth. I would avoid Big Boy too, but they were a cog in the culture. Keeping it so each person gives or get so many hours of labor over their working life times, and by that I am looking at the New Deal’s traditional 40 hour work week and retirement at age of 65, will have to be looked at again.
One part of it is that the virus has given lots of time to think on Trump’s quality, or lack thereof. Too many people are apt to die and the economy still be locked up as a result of his delayed action. I know that the timing was not quite right, but the Republican senators should have convicted him while they had the chance.
Are thousands of murders an impeachable offense? I suppose without snap elections impeachment has to be a bigger step than the parliamentary system’s vote of no confidence, but still…
If we can produce in 30 hours a week what we used to produce in 40, then ten hours a week are either exploitation or waste. Waste includes pointless meetings and rituals. Exploitation means that the economic elites are getting the fruit of productivity gains and workers are getting nothing out of them. Waste or exploitation -- neither is desirable.
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.