Posted on 03/10/2019 6:32:31 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
“If you don’t have a job, you are left to die" in the United States, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said over the weekend, The Verge reported on Sunday.
Ocasio-Cortez, speaking at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas, made the comments in the context of explaining that "we should not be haunted by" the possibility of automated workers replacing jobs.
"We should be excited by that,” the New York congresswoman said. “But the reason we’re not excited by it is because we live in a society where if you don’t have a job, you are left to die. And that is, at its core, our problem."
She added that expanded automation could potentially mean "more time educating ourselves, more time creating art, more time investing in and investigating the sciences, more time focused on invention… more time enjoying the world that we live in. Because not all creativity needs to be bonded by wage.”
Ocasio-Cortez did not put forward a specific plan for dealing with automation, but her comments were part of her general message against economic inequality and corporate greed.
“We should be working the least amount we’ve ever worked, if we were actually paid based on how much wealth we were producing,” she said. “But we’re not. We’re paid on how little we’re desperate enough to accept. And then the rest is skimmed off and given to a billionaire.”
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Socialists want all your stuff ...except your job.
B/S.
In WHAT WORLD does this dingbat live?
American woman, get away from me.
Um...we don’t have unemployment bennies in the US? News to me.
If you don’t want to work you don’t have to, this is what you said, so who’s gonna die?
And those without brains serve as democrat politicians...
Does she ever shut up ?
Somewhere she read the Cliff Notes to Bellamy’s Looking Backward and Skinner’s Walden Two and never bithered to think about them because they sounded so cool.
“Socialists want all your stuff ...except your job.”
Also, they don’t want to pay for their stuff. They want us to pay for their stuff!
Hah ... has the lying bitch never heard of "welfare"?
No. And Big Media reports her every verbal excretion, because she and they are all communists.
This is about what I’d expect to hear from someone who arrived as a political candidate in 2018 and could list all of her accomplishments in life on a postage stamp.
Always the problem with these Twits. They never follow any linear logical path.
She’s never heard of Unemployment Benefits? Usually if no job is found, they end up with some sort of Disability (SSI?) But there’s always resources to pursue.
Creating value vs Capturing value
Producers vs Rentiers
This mentally ill bug-eyed twerp should go back to Puerto Rico and live there in a rural area with no electricity.
Practice what you preach, AOC.
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