To be fair, Ed, the left wing fights the solution too. The solution being the unconditional basic income. It was the last thing Martin Luther King, Jr. recommended as the proper solution to inequality -- just before he was assassinated. The Southern Poverty Law Center has never advocated it despite proclaiming itself the recipient of Dr. King's mantle subsequent to his assassination. Curious that they would fight a race-neutral cure for inequality that Dr. King himself recommended, thereby setting white working class against blacks due to affirmative action most directly impacting the white working class. No major Democratic party candidate has ever even proposed it. The closest anyone with any prominence in public policy has come to a serious proposal for it has been a libertarian scholar with -- of all places -- the Cato Institute: Charles Murray's "In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State" <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skDgS5nEY6c>
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Edmund Storms <stor...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > Good point Stewart. People like to hear about all the good things the > future holds but its the bad things that are worth knowing so that they can > be avoid. For example, people look forward to having their work done by > robots but each robot puts several people out of work, who now cannot > afford to buy a robot or anything else. In spite of this problem becoming > obvious, the right wing fights the solution. What does that say about the > future? > > Ed > > On Jan 2, 2014, at 11:48 AM, ChemE Stewart wrote: > > Yeah, he missed the part about 1/55 kids with autism, amphibians > disappearing, starfish melting, birds dropping from the sky, trees > disappearing, reactors melting down, reefs bleaching, Earth warming, > Alzheimer's and > some cancers increasing. Other than that it is one big f($$& worldwide > party... :) > > On Thursday, January 2, 2014, Jed Rothwell wrote: > >> See: >> >> http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/23/lifetimes/asi-v-fair.html >> >> Too optimistic about many technologies, but not bad. Arthur Clarke did a >> better job in my opinion. >> >> - Jed >> >> >
