You obviously don’t feel sorry for anyone, that’s clear enough. Where did their jobs go? To China would be my guess. But by your reasoning that’s their fault too for not anticipating that they should have voluntarily lowered their wages to thirty cents an hour to “compete”.

Lower wages push down consumption, and lowers demand for everything except ultra high-end goods for the 1%. That’s nowhere near enough to stimulate the entire economy.

Yes, but please make it Workfare. People who do still have jobs get mighty resentful about paying taxes to support those who do not. And even in the age of robots, there will likely be plenty of work that needs to get done but provides little to no short term ROI.

Auditioning to join Phish?

Maybe he didn’t know about there being a “militia” in Oregon, because they are terrorists, not a “militia”.

So? The media doesn’t “play along” in making people famous for being famous. That’s their fucking job. The purpose of the media is not to entertain or inform. The purpose of the media is to sell advertising. The cheapest and easiest—and therefore most profitable—way to do this is to give people sensationalism geared…

How will they pay for that education with no jobs? And if they can simply solve every problem with more education, why aren’t they in school right now instead of driving for lyft? And where is the market for all these educated would-be employees? Who’s hiring now, and who will have the capacity to hire hordes of…

How? By what “theory” does impoverishing people push them up?

This isn’t just a few million jobs. It’s tens of millions. And for each driver displaced by a robot, there are many bsuinesses who rely on that driver as a customer. And rest assured, robots stand ready to taske more jobs than that of drivers.

everybody needs to stop calling a bunch of terrorists a “militia”.

Yeah, so much for those “Job Creators”.

You think this will emd with Lyft? If you sell anything to anyone who drives for a living, better start thinking now on who’s going to replace them as your customer. If your business relies on selling things to people who sell things to drivers, get ready to take a hit. When millions of drivers are jobless, they won’t…

The downside to robot cars is that tens of millions of human drivers will become jobless, and the hundreds of millions of us who rely on them to be consumers and taxpayers will be very hard put to make up the difference.

Well, it makes sense when you view it in the context of GM being a global company, which requires it to employ many linguists, and they have to be very cunning in able to compete in the global marketplace.

No? This is a site for “serious feminism”, is it? Pardon me while I go read the next post about whatever the Kardashians are up to.

Too bad the 2nd 50% has no interest at all in stopping the first 50% from ruining our society, not to mention making the 2nd 50% look bad.

Yeah, seems to me the focus of this article should have less to do with obnoxious bikers and more about hypocritical cops who abuse their status to break the laws we pay them to enforce.

Yep. If we’re dissing Lemon for complementing her tits, why isn’t she getting any shit for showing them off?

And your “contribution” is nothing but juvenile name-calling, which is what Regressives do when bereft of facts.

And Mickey D just paid out $20 billion in dividends to the shareholders who do no work at all. But go ahead and blame the people who actually do the work because they have no rights, right?