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> There are many rural communities that depend on fossil fuel related jobs and will vote to protect them. It's true to an extent, but technological transitions
by mmooss 1y ago
> There are many rural communities that depend on fossil fuel related jobs and will vote to protect them.
It's true to an extent, but technological transitions happen regularly. Everything we have now is a product of a prior transition.
> Remove the policies and the money still goes to the rich and we lose jobs too.
Prices drop, and also the money goes to those who can innovate in the real economy. Manufacturing isn't the only sector of the economy, and we want to build the new sectors and industries, not the ones that were successful 75 years ago.
- giantg2 1y ago"but technological transitions happen regularly" Yes, and that doesn't refute that people will vote to protect their jobs. If they were offered alternatives, then maybe it would gain more traction in those areas. Eg you can't mine coal anymore but we'll start up a solar panel plant here. "and we want to build the new sectors and industries" And what are those? Most of the economy is shit for job seekers right now. We continue to automate and outsource. Right now it looks like nursing and the trades are some of the few things actually growing.
- mmooss 1y ago> And what are those? The challenge of being on the leading edge economically (i.e., not being a middle-income country following the road blazed by others), is you don't always know. Certainly IT, non-GHG energy, ...