Automation

Automation was expected to be our salvation and liberation, but it was coopted as just another tool of the permanent  kleptocratic oligarchy.  The rule seems to be that the ruling class will always find a way to come out on top at the expense of the poor. 

It's about jobs. Automation is finally, fully  kicking in. Its built in.  Inexorable. The number of people needed to run a healthy productive economy is down below the critical mass by a huge amount.  We are at twenty percent unemployed now,  and might arguably be heading toward  a permanent forty to seventy percent half employed, marginally employed, unemployed/unemployable. Seriously.  With chinese slave labor and automation/efficiency, only the brightest and best thirty percent of Americans will be able to "pursue happiness".  Hell, it's probably,always been that way. Imagine what life was like for workers, for eighty percent of Americans, a hundred years ago. Unlivable.  

You know what I believe.  That any fond hope for a better life for the less talented majority was always sheer bunk.  Fond, ie foolish hopes.  You believe things have changed, but they haven't. Again, even worse, imagine life for the vast majority in the eighteenth century.  Or Liberia or Haiti today.


And this is not not going away.  The only cure is a guaranteed annual wage. Paul Goodman's plan. (and a pretty drab life style at best); and that will be effectively resisted by red state Americans as being un-American.  

Life has always been miserable for half the population, even in the most developed economies.  Miserable.  Miser-able.  Full of uncertainty and misery.  You people just don't realize what it's like to hate your slave job, hate your boss, be a pay check away from despair every single day of your life. Have no vacations. Commute an hour or more. It's horrible.   That's normal!!  Only the talented thirty percent are above it all.   Economically stable and successful liberals.  It's oxymoronic.  Maybe plain moronic. 

Did the word automation (equals despair) come up once yet anywhere at all in this whole discussion?  Did Robert Reich mention it?  No.  Nobody wants to just give up and shut up.  Hope and change is an industry in itself.  

Herman Cain idiotically said if your you're not rich or employed, blame yourself. Silly as that sounds,he's right;  he means blame your DNA. Blame yourself for not having the where-with-all to compete and win.