America Can’t Even Produce the Things It Invented

Post by anonunivgrad » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 3:17 AM UTC

diydsp wrote: post #165

Dylan16807 wrote: post #126

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Medical care and not being harassed/shot are also important, and the Democratic party doesn't seem particularly enthusiastic about those things either.

Those two items do take a prominent place in the dem platform [0] Several large-ish departments [1] have been persuaded to make budgetary changes in regards to the lite version of defund the police, i.e. transfer certain operations to medical specialists such as mental illness, etc. don't have time to dig as deep into dem support of taxpayer-funded healthcare, but here is one group to pay attention to because they se…

Post by Dylan16807 » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 3:45 AM UTC

anonunivgrad wrote: post #171

diydsp wrote: post #165

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Those two items do take a prominent place in the dem platform [0] Several large-ish departments [1] have been persuaded to make budgetary changes in regards to the lite version of defund the police, i.e. transfer certain operations to medical specialists such as mental illness, etc. don't have time to dig as deep into dem support of taxpayer-funded healthcare, but here is one group to pay attention to because they se…

I think he means the thousands (and rising) of people shot by criminals every year, not the few dozen shot by police.

Post by jdkee » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 4:10 AM UTC

slv77 wrote: post #164

esoterica wrote: post #104

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Why the obsession with manufacturing jobs? Unemployment was still low (at least pre-covid) and total compensation, while not growing as fast as some people would like, is still higher than ever.

Manufacturing requires the ability to marshal human, technological and financial resources at scale. The US policy for the last 50 years has been to invest heavily in the technological and financial capabilities of the equation and outsource the human capability to other countries. COVID-19 has made it apparent that there are significant advantages to having the operational capabilities to organize human resources at…

Post by m463 » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 5:45 AM UTC

zepto wrote: post #148

m463 wrote: post #125

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I'm reminded of a story I read about a dictator that took over a country, who while corrupt, actually funneled more money into infrastructure than anyone before him and became very popular with the people. sort of deal with the devil though.

Xi?

Post by ryandrake » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 7:03 AM UTC

l3v3ll wrote: post #166

esoterica wrote: post #161

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10% of the population is 33 million people. There's a sleight-of-hand going on here where people whine about a tiny number of billionaires and CEOs screwing over the masses and then point to statistics that actual show the average upper middle class household doing very well. I bet a large fraction of the posters on here who complain about being oppressed by economic inequality are themselves part of the top 10% too…

Quit down playing the inequality. Let me make the math easier. Of 10 people, one owns 86% of the stock. The other 9 fight for the other 14%. You are trying to justify that and it’s unfortunate. Also, the few billionaires are still very much a problem. However, the top 10% still displays a large inequality, quite the opposite of “doing very well”. And, I’m glad there are 10%’ers who are pro-equality, they aren’t compl…