Re:Tech Is Splitting the U.S. Work Force in Two
by softawre on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @11:46AM
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If you are so inclined, can you explain what the whole picture shows?
Re:Tech Is Splitting the U.S. Work Force in Two
by rock_hard on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @12:03PM
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You always need to augment your quantitative data with qualitative data.
I intended to provide more of the later
Re:Tech Is Splitting the U.S. Work Force in Two
by zozbot123 on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @10:56AM
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> If only people had free mobility...maybe everybody could just love in a place that works for them
It would be nice to have free mobility + something like a low-level UBI, for people who really need to be helped and not fall through the cracks. A rather low UBI that focused on just ensuring the basic necessities of life would most likely be quite affordable (e.g. in terms of overall tax burden, or fraction of GDP), and probably wouldn't even be perceived as "socialism". Then we'd probably see places like Europe lose a lot of their former attractiveness as they'd be left trying to manage their unwieldly, dinosaur-socialist states, as anyone with even the tiniest shred of ambition and initiative left would immediately flee for the more open parts of the world.
But that’s besides the point, the point I was trying to make is that America worked much better for a person like me.
Likewise I can imagine a place like Europe working better for some folks.
If only people had free mobility...maybe everybody could just love in a place that works for them