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In reply to the discussion: Amazon on Monday unveiled the latest plan to automate American workers out of existence [View all]HughBeaumont
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Buzzwords and vague brush-offs like "innovation", "new industries", "risk-taking", "start your own business", "education is the key" aren't going to solve the problem of millions with absolutely no potential to collect a paycheck. Multiply economic regression by millions upon millions of citizens and, sorry to break this to you, you're going to have a heaping biblical problem on your hands that's likely going to turn bloody and ugly. If we're proposing every generation from now on will have to work until they're gurneyed out while throwing our kids to an economic environment that offers such minimal opportunity to succeed (with an enormous entrance fee, of course) . . . that's not much to look forward to. That's going to lead to cataclysm and murders. How can we avoid this?