Nice work, Silicon Valet.

Maybe less cops would abuse citizens if those multi-million dollar settlements came out of the police pension funds instead of taxpayers’ pockets.

No argument that people should be paid what their work is worth. But if Chrysler isn’t willing or able to pay the guy turning screws enough to buy a Chrysler, they have no business harassing him for buying what he can afford—or in any case chooses to buy.

If they want to reward people for buying their cars, they need to start by making sure their employees are paid enough to afford to buy the cars they make.

The consitution lays out what the governments jobs are. One is to “promote the general welfare”. Another is to regulate commerce. So yes, it IS the governments job to see to it that workers are not exploited to death by capitalism. You’re taking the side of those who said the government had no business ending slavery.

Apparently you have not noticed that even though the minimum wage has not risen, rent and prices have. Too bad you and the CEOs you worship are unable to grasp the simple common sense that Henry Ford had 100 years ago: If you pay your employees a living wage, they can afford to buy more of the product you’re selling.

And what other labor market exactly will that be? And in the meantime, how low will rent fall, along with the price of food and healthcare? Wages are dropping while the prices of essentials keep rising. People are being squeezed to the point that more and more folks find revolution to be an acceptable option.

You don’t have to ever pay for rent or groceries, do you Ry-boy? If you did, you’d know just how full of shit you are about lower wages and lower prices.

Are you for real? What you fail to see is that when jobs are outsourced, whether it be to robots or chinese slave labor, all of the profit is captured by the owners. Their standard of living is raised, but not that of the former workers.

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”.