[E. Pluribus Unum]

It is merely an end-run around the various institutions which have developed to protect workers and elevate the broad standard of living and quality of life in this nation.

Spoken like a true union thug.

[lelio]

Spoken like a true union thug.

So you disagree that there's a difference between technical innovation job destruction (and later creation) and low wage job destruction?

[AntiGuv]

Spoken like a true union thug.

The value-judgment you seek to impose on my remarks is quite irrelevant. The fact of the matter remains the same. There is a fundamental distinction between replacing jobs via technological advancement and displacing jobs via the formation of a cheap labor class. In the latter case, it makes no difference whether you export these jobs to an overseas underclass or create the underclass within the domestic economy. In either case, the end result is the same: a degradation of the earning and purchasing power of your own citizenry.

If you find that admirable & desirable, then more power to you, but don't pester me with this frivolous and fallacious analogy between innovation and exploitation - because I really can't be bothered.

Have a nice day.

[AmericanVictory]

The one thing that all of the "various institutions" have done consistently, with increasing cooperation and effectiveness, is to block the development of breakthrough technology embodying actual solutions to problems whenever they can. Perhaps they are looking back to the "Celebrated Montesquieu," who bewailed the widespread adoption of the water driven grist mill, so new in his time, that was enabling the grinding of so much grain and displacing the employment of so many who had been grinding it by hand.

[Paul Ross]

Spoken like a true union thug.

EPU: Seems like you're moniker is a misnomer. With divisive and disrespectful commentary like this, it should instead be E. Unum Pluribus. Yet another communist thug trying to divide and conquer America. "Pay no attention to those National Security issues...! It's all a filthy protectionist trick!"