Proyect pasted an Eduardo Porter NYT column which had this sentence:
On Apr 29, 2015, at 12:00 PM, [email protected] wrote: > A more compelling explanation is that when globalization struck at the > jobs on which 20th-century America had built its middle class, the > United States discovered that it did not, in fact, have much of a > welfare state to speak of. The threadbare safety net tore under the strain. It is much too facile to blame the loss of jobs on globalization -- i. e. the export of jobs. But it is easy to sell that to an audience that can blame a company or a politician for doing that. When a factory closes and the equipment is unbolted from the floor and shipped abroad, that is obvious and the concentrated job losers know what/who to blame. But when, nationally, 2 or 3% or more jobs, year after year, are eliminated, that goes unnoticed for the losses are spread throughout the land and an individual company or city isn't devastated at once. This is not a scream against technology but against the inattention to what it does to employment, relentlessly, year in and out. Gene _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
