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What the hell is a progressive economy?
by canadianfella 4y ago
What the hell is a progressive economy?
- jmeister 4y agoIt’s an awful title, probably chosen by the editors. The author Kotkin knows and does better.
- tsimionescu 4y agoThe author uses the term constantly throughout the article, and really seems to think the Left should be pretty afraid of blue-collar workers gaining power and unionizing. I very much doubt the author knows what they are talking about.
- esarbe 4y agoThat was my impression as well. Seems to be some conservative culture warrior type.
- pjc50 4y agoAnything the author doesn't like. This is rather a lot of words spilt on weird "anti-woke" obsession.
- kmeisthax 4y agoI'm not sure? My guess is that it's a term the author (or the blog) coined to push some right-wing political hobby-horses. If I had to take it seriously, I'd argue that what he's talking about is the DNC donor class - i.e. the big tech companies that signal for progressive causes as long as it isn't too closely related to their labor costs. There's a dash of "AI will kill and eat everyone" here too, except the author seems to think that white collar workers will be unscathed while artists and programmers will be completely obsoleted. I don't buy that.
- AdrianB1 4y agoProbably this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressivism#Economic_progressivism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressivism#Economic_progres...