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To: Little Ray

The main sufferers have been what is used to be called the industrial workers, they are now saying that if you can’t protect us, we are going across to the people who might be able to. They might be ugly but they might allow us to throw a political hand grenade into the system to wake up those Americans who have been neglected ideologically by the left and also because they have actually lost their jobs to benefit people in China, as Trump has been arguing.


Why does this remind me of Luddites? I would encourage all to do some historical reading. History repeats itself, the same but different?


40 posted on 01/16/2017 7:11:52 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: PeterPrinciple
Being a Luddite implies that someone is against automation. Being against offshoring of manufacturing to the 3rd does NOT make one a Luddite. With automation the job disappears, with offshoring the job gets transferred but not destroyed. See the difference?

Job loses to offshoring and job loses to global labor arbitrage are totally different beasts altogether.

41 posted on 01/16/2017 7:21:11 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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