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I'm a big fan of decoupling the historical relationship between having salable labor-power and having an income that can be exchanged for goods and services. If
by philipkglass 10y ago
I'm a big fan of decoupling the historical relationship between having salable labor-power and having an income that can be exchanged for goods and services. If the productive economy can go Full Robot, I think that it should, and governments should start planning how their people can get goods and services as opposed to getting jobs.
That said, I think it's fair to expect displaced workers' countries to take the lead on adaptation strategies for their own voters. Some displaced crop pickers are eligible to vote in the US but I think that the bulk of them are eligible only in countries outside the US. Undocumented immigrants don't bother me but neither do I feel like it's the responsibility of Americans to provide temporary foreign workers, documented or not, with jobs in the US.