Report Card for Donald Trump

[David Horn]

(12-09-2016, 08:58 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: 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. Good. We don't have to work anymore. So the owners and managers of the machines will have to COUGH UP THE DOUGH! No more trickle-down economics. No more blaming poor ethnic freeloaders for your problems, libertarians! We all should get the money we need directly from government taxes on the machine owners, and then and only then will they have any customers. I don't see how that's not the future.

This is the dilemma inherent to modernity.  We can do everything cheaper, quicker and easier, but we can't have any of it because we can't afford it.  It's the largest and most complete oxymoron ever.  Yet here we are.

That's why any 4T resolution will be incomplete at best.  We haven't the foggiest idea how to resolve this core issue, but can't avoid it either.  Add climate change to the mix (also resolvable by machines) and the challenge only gets greater.  Capital won't tolerate confiscation of their property, but they can't get paid for it if no one has the wherewithal.