Automation Policy

[horncyclist 1386]

This is a top 5 issue imo and only one candidate, Andrew Yang, is talking about it. It's crystal clear it's coming and even if everything resets in the end that's going to take a ton of time. Meanwhile, a ton of people are going to be out of work. Unions and some dems think preventing automation is the answer. Republicans thinks growth will magically take care of everything. Both are wrong.

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-to-retrain-a-third-of-its-u-s-workforce-11562841120

 

From the article:

 

Amazon has been criticized for its treatment of workers in recent years by labor groups and lawmakers. For example, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a Democratic presidential candidate, tweeted in March that the company must “significantly improve working conditions at its warehouses” and respect workers’ rights to form a union. On Thursday, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which has been pushing to organize Amazon workers, said it opposed the retraining program. The group said Amazon’s adoption of automation would “lead to massive job losses that could cripple our entire economy.”

 

Andrew Yang sums it up well on Joe Rogan:https://youtu.be/cTsEzmFamZ8

[bad_teammate 13132]

10 minutes ago, horncyclist said:

This is a top 5 issue imo and only one candidate, Andrew Yang, is talking about it. It's crystal clear it's coming and even if everything resets in the end that's going to take a ton of time. Meanwhile, a ton of people are going to be out of work. Unions and some dems think preventing automation is the answer. Republicans thinks growth will magically take care of everything. Both are wrong.

This is the answer, far moreso than Yang's version of a "U"BI.

Job retraining programs are bullshit and don't work.

A massive, privately-owned, largely-automated distribution channel run by a handful of unaccountable people having a virtual monopoly on the marketing/sale/distribution of goods is an absolute nightmare scenario out of a sci-fi novel. Think for a few seconds.

The capitalist will tell you that the goal of a monetary economy is the concentration of wealth into the hands of the vanishingly-small number of "winners", but the actual purpose of having a monetary economy is to increase the well-being of the people. If the future really is highly-automated, removing wages from the people, then the channels themselves have to become public goods.

 

[horncyclist 1386]

1 hour ago, bad_teammate said:

This is the answer, far moreso than Yang's version of a "U"BI.

Job retraining programs are bullshit and don't work.

A massive, privately-owned, largely-automated distribution channel run by a handful of unaccountable people having a virtual monopoly on the marketing/sale/distribution of goods is an absolute nightmare scenario out of a sci-fi novel. Think for a few seconds.

The capitalist will tell you that the goal of a monetary economy is the concentration of wealth into the hands of the vanishingly-small number of "winners", but the actual purpose of having a monetary economy is to increase the well-being of the people. If the future really is highly-automated, removing wages from the people, then the channels themselves have to become public goods.

 

Very Luddite of you. Stop innovation? Really?