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New Yorker Article on Silly Valley lack of empathy
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Heh, i feel like i should screen shot you the debates i've been having on this subject from the last few weeks to a year ago. I keep hoping for one of those "facebook memories" to pop up with me trying to wake up my (generally) progressively minded network that while we are soaring, MANY are falling. My Mom's side of the family is stereotypical midwest, formerly manufacturing or heavy industry, little greater education and now for the last 10-20 years scratching to get buy. In the medium of our time... #theyvebeenoutsourced In line with that belief I joined a political party for the first time since I turned 18, just so i could vote in the caucus for a guy that was jumping from being an independent as well. Senator Sanders was the only (reasonable and truthful) voice addressing these concerns. Now I don't necessarily see eye to eye on everything with him. I believe that globalization is here to stay, BUT, in the words of that liberal rag The Economist, "we cannot go on progressing globalism if we do not take care of those who globalism leaves behind." I'm deeply concerned about what happens when 3million people that drive stuff for a living are out of work in 10 years. The current Secretary of Commerce was on some NPR program a little over a month ago and was asked point blank about what happens to those 3 million people when there's no longer work for them, she danced around it. That's not a good sign. The conversation of Universal Basic Income needs to come back into the picture (it was originally brought up in the 70's). The pickle with that is, many people WANT to work, how do you tell them they just aren't needed and here's your government subsidy to stay alive? I currently have not considered how to approach that.