Innovation, global wage abritage, and ai is a powerful force.
Posted on 04/12/2022 4:58:09 PM PDT by FarCenter
Nothing has revealed the class divide in the U.S. quite like runaway inflation and skyrocketing gas prices. But in addition to the economic impact the staggering incompetence of the Biden administration is having on the working class, there is a political one; it's undeniably driving working class voters even further from the Democrats and toward the GOP.
But it's not all good news for conservatives. The recent Amazon vote to unionize could be a precursor to something less appealing to the Right: a nascent rebellion among the vast armies of service workers who for decades have inhabited the lower economic rungs.
The truth is, the rising tide of class conflict is problematic for both parties. The Amazon vote challenges the GOP's anti-union stance and its free market dogma. But Democrats, too, face an embarrassing conundrum, since the companies most likely to face continued union drives—Amazon and Starbucks among them—are themselves core funders and media stewards of the Democratic Party.
This is not the discussion either liberal oligarchs or Right-wing activists want. They would rather battle over media hot buttons like climate, race, and gender, than meaningfully address working conditions, wages or rapidly rising rents.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
“ But in addition to the economic impact the staggering incompetence of the Biden administration is having on the working class…”
Newsweek….baby steps.
Amazon is heading for robotics so they don’t have to deal with unions 🤪
YOU are ‘inhabiting the lower economic rungs” because you:
don’t have an education-—
Have NO skills—have NO ambition-—
Have no willingness to work extra -—
think you are ENTITLED—
have a criminal record long enough to paper my garage with-—
Think you are ENTITLED-—
cannot keep out of trouble-—
Think you are ENTITLED-—
DO NOT know how to actually WORK & give your employer skills for a paycheck.
Think that you can show up in a Buckwheat hairdo with piercings all over your tattooed face/arms/neck and smell like last weeks garbage can due to lack of personal hygiene.
Think that $15 an hour is DUE to you for just existing for a few moments to get ‘hired’.
Think that actual ATTENDANCE on a work site can be adjusted to your video gaming schedule....
There are many more reasons....
Innovation, global wage abritage, and ai is a powerful force.
“Vanguardism”. What’s to be done? - Lenin
Well...DUH!
Seems that we had a presidential candidate in 2000 who warned us about this...
The tea leaves were there, plain as day, yet he was ridiculed by the assertion...
Even today, even on FR, you can hear the lamentations of "It can't happen here!"
Apple and Microsoft and Google already use AI to write software. They have probably shed tens of thousands of workers over the years.
Almost true, but not quite.
Yes, the people with those qualities are the first to end up on the bottom rung of the ladder. However, the billionaire club seek to place everybody who isn’t a millionaire on that bottom rung along with the firsties.
Since the ruling class is doing its best to control every aspect of our lives, its nice someone noticed.
Sounds like you are describing a super rich woke-hedge-fund manager.
The right doesn’t want to waste time on fake liberal fear mongering. Only the liberals make it all about those “hot button” issues.
“YOU are ‘inhabiting the lower economic rungs” because you:”
*****
You think you’ve got a seat at the table, you don’t.
Sure. The democrats have been pushing for it for decades.
Their very own cultural revolution. After which they become dictators for life.
Want to increase wages on the lower rungs of the ladder? Start by controlling the border.
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