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(58,709 posts)Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
Demsrule86
(68,667 posts)is helping now and I was surprised how good they are...so hoping.
malaise
(269,157 posts)Baclava
(12,047 posts)people are suffering
empedocles
(15,751 posts)declining unemployment numbers - as fewer people are counted as unemployed.
2naSalit
(86,779 posts)Assholes also cook the #s to make the horrible look slightly palatable.
And don't forget that these Assholes also cook the #s to make the horrible look slightly palatable.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)haele
(12,676 posts)Unfortunately, over the past 10 years, that's what people have tried to turn it into, because, as you said - there are no new jobs.
The GOP and the corporatist Libertarians have been pushing to downplay the new green and tech jobs, as well as the critical Education infrastructure required to transition from "your Grandfather's Honest Days Work" to what is needed for now and going forward.
Better Technology results in redundant jobs going away forever. You aren't going to ever again see factory or mining towns where tens of thousands of living wage jobs can depend on a single major employer.
The old comfortable, seasonal Rural America economic model has been dead for years. They just don't want to bury the corpse and make the hard effort of creating new, more diversified community economies. It's scary, it takes infrastructure investments, and it upends generational positions of community power and absentee wealth.
There needs to be more economy for artisans and small businesses - and yes, better 'gig' models for people with just normal talent; those who are unlucky, or can't or otherwise aren't able to compete for a share of the "new economy", and at least a minimum monthly stipend to supplement those who will not be able to work full time.
There also needs to be a re-investment into and a recognition of the Social Contract that brought us out of the hardscrabble sustinance existence into the modern, technological weath-building economy we have now.
After all, without all the workers and customers, as well as the regulations and governance that ensures one won't be standing alone in a crime-ridden wasteland, how can these supposed "elites" have been able to make and keep their wealth in the first place?
Randroids, aka Libertarian Assholes, are some of the most selfish, short-sighted, idiot grifters who just happened to get lucky I have ever seen. They aren't great thinkers, they're just clever at best. And they're too stupid to see they never got to where they are now on their own.
Haele