Report Card for Donald Trump

[Odin]

(12-30-2016, 09:35 AM)SomeGuy Wrote:

(12-30-2016, 08:21 AM)Odin Wrote: The development of a consumerist society, driven by marketing creating artificial demand (read up on Edward Bernays), and all the new sectors that evolved from that have absorbed all the previous waves of labor-saving technological change and that has masked technological unemployment in manufacturing, agriculture, and resource extraction, but that is now coming to an end. Good paying jobs for those incapable of higher education will be rapidly disappearing and low-pay McJobs cannot sustain an economy based on consumerism.

Is this like a new part of the progressive catechism now?  Jesus, Odin, I am aware of what the position is, I'd like to see it justified, not merely repeated in different words.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I am as pleased as the next member of the proletariat that the march of progress is bringing about the final triumph of true Communism, it's just that I am a bit of a materialist.  I can't get by on faith alone.

A big reason the Rust Belt is hurting so much is that the good-paying jobs are simply no longer there for folks who are on the shorter end of the stick intellectually, and one of the big issues with the Obama Recovery is that most of the new jobs were lower-pay service industry jobs that did not not pay as much as the old jobs. We are already seeing the process I'm talking about beginning to unfold now, this is WHY it's getting talked about in progressive circles. Hell, even some on the Right like the idea of a Universal Basic Income, because they see what's coming.