Ocasio-Cortez: In US 'if you don't have a job you are left to die'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said Saturday that, in the U.S., "if you don't have a job, you are left to die."

Ocasio-Cortez, who made the remark at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, added that "we should not be haunted by" the possibility of automated workers replacing jobs, according to The Verge.

"We should be excited by that. But the reason we're not excited by it is because we live in a society where if you don't have a job, you are left to die. And that is, at its core, our problem," added the congressman, whose "Green New Deal" proposal includes a federal jobs guarantee.

Ocasio-Cortez also said during her interview that automation could potentially allow for more time to focus on art, inventions, the sciences and "enjoying the world that we live in."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ocasio-cortez-in-us-if-you-dont-have-a-job-you-are-left-to-die/ar-BBUBm5B?li=BBnb7Kz

That's perhaps a bit extreme however we don't have quite the safety net we used to.

[thewhollytoast]

1. In America if you don't have a job to talk about you do not exist. eom

[dlk]

2. It's the Modern Incarnation of the Puritan Work Ethic

Idle hands are the devil’s playground and all that.

[Blecht]

3. It is not extreme at all

If you don't have a job, you can't afford a place to live.

If you can't afford a place to live, you need to rely on your social network (family, friends) to help you secure shelter.

If you don't have family and you have lost your connections to others, you end up homeless.

If you are homeless, you are effectively left to die.

[LiberalLoner]

4. +1

Exactly right.