See my edited post re the industrious of SE Asia workers. The northern latitude work ethic chauvinism is old tired myth. Of course people who lived in cold winter climates had to chop wood, etc. But these days the most industrious laborer is often a matter of who is the hungriest. If you don't believe me, talk to general contractors whether a typical white northerner laborer works as hard as a hungry immigrant laborer from Guatemala.
Without jobs so people can earn money the corporations with their robots will have few customers to buy their products, and thus smaller profits.
They would be able to accumulate far greater wealth with a well-paid and prosperous population to sell things to. It's called growth.
That is what I don't get about republicans. Instead of taking up policies that will raise everyone up, and thereby allow themselves to accumulate more wealth they do the opposite by suppressing wages, ability to access healthcare, and reducing social services. In the bigger picture this will hurt them, too. Nah, I do get it. They are greedy cocksuckers. Maybe they will just circle the wagons and live off their riches while everyone else starves.
Yeah, for sure a big middle class tax cut would do much more to stimulate the economy, but we know it's about giving the donor class, e.g., Koch brothers, a big tax cut enabled by the big lie that it's good for the middle class. #trickledownredux
That seems to be their plan.
i think I heard the most benefits accrue to the top .2%.
Just grabbing the money while they can and then moving to their bunkers in the desert. Doomsday prep for the super-rich.
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Never in U.S. history has the public chosen leadership this malevolent. The moral clarity of their decision is crystalline, particularly knowing how Trump will regard his slim margin as a “mandate” to do his worst. We’ve learned something about America that we didn’t know, or perhaps didn’t believe, and it’ll forever color our individual judgments of who and what we are.
I'm 28 years old and now finally feel like I'm in a place where I can afford to have children. Why the fuck people have kids without thinking about the economic, mental and physical strain it will put on them and their spouse, I do not understand. I got married young but we've had 8 years to play outside and build our relationship and our careers. I can't imagine wanting to add a kid to that mix. Maybe that's why the Tammy Wynette thread is 109 pages.
Teach them that hard work is important. Oh so important. Encourage them to study math and science and how to write some code, but also philosophy, writing, and a foreign language.
The jobs of the near future will be much like the jobs of today, and they will be abundantly available. Increased adoption of IT is more similar to the productivity gains we had in the 1950s than what we had during the second agricultural revolution or the industrial revolution. If your kids like to learn and like to work hard, they'll be fine. I mean, you probably don't want to get into long haul truck driving or become an adjunct college prof right now, but that's common sense. If you're a plumber or a lawyer or a financial analyst, you'll be fine. Of course, you'll be more fine if you like to learn new skills and you're tech-savvy, but that has always been the case.
None of that helps with political instability, armed conflict, or climate change. If and when we finish melting the ice caps or the forward gets us nuked or Nazis complete their takeover of our government, we will be fucked. But you probably can't effectively hedge those risks. Try not to dwell on it (as a parent, that's hard).
My perhaps flawed understanding having lived only in the British colonies for a while is that Afternoon Tea is different than High Tea, the latter being reserved more for the working class who must labor later in the day before enjoying a cup of tea with a spot. I'll defer to Brit on this.
"timberridge is terminally vapid" -- a fortune cookie in Yueyang
So do my wife and I but we managed to keep things from happening.
Oh, right, forgot about that part. I have an overweight dumb than a rock 2nd cousin who went to the hospital 6 months pregnant complaining she had stomach pain. They were like, hey dumbass that's your baby kicking. WTF!!Because people are dumb
What people don't think about is those 'sweat shop' workers went to the cities of their own free will. They typically lived in huts in rural parts of China, working the family farms until they decided to change their lifestyle.
Their parents and generations before them were perfectly happy to live the rural farmer lifestyle. And are/were likely happier than their kids living in the city working in a factory.
We're not talking about IT though. We're talking about driving, working in factories or fast food, warehouse and delivery work and on and on - essentially everything that maybe a third of the workforce does now. What are those people going to do? And what are "we" (society) gonna do with them? And in turn what will that do to us?
I think your analysis is essentially correct in the long run, but it's far too sanguine imo, especially in the nearish future. "Don't worry be happy" was a shitty campaign song then and it's worse policy now.
Teach them all that, and teach them the skills of a small business, e.g., bookkeeping and organization. Whenever I hear the term "jobs" as if working for someone else is the only way to make money, I am reminded of the different world views W-2ers (who make their money working a job) and those of us who haven't gotten a W-2 for years because we make our money via self-employment. As a general trend (subject to many exceptions of course) W-2 compensation has remained stagnant for a few decades, but the new economy has been good for many of those who moved their mindset from "getting a job" to "finding a way to make a living." Don't just teach your kids skills to get a job. Also help them develop the skills to make a living in ways other than working for someone else. I no fan of the term "gig economy," but that's gonna be the future for many, perhaps most, workers. There are drawbacks to it, but there are also advantages, e.g., flex time, more control over your work day, better setting for risk takers.
Well, actually, many of them were forced into the cities by government edict, automation of farms and extreme poverty. If they were so happy, there would be no need for barbed wire fences and armed guards around the factory dormitories.
if you don't have a skill set the market needs, you will be a second class citizen. I graduated HS in 1982. Some kids just went to "work". Folks like that now are fucked. In twenty years, people like that will be double fucked.
I recommend you further educate yourself on the facts of land ownership in China, and how it has influenced rural to urban migrations.
http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/9/1/123/pdf
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