Free trade is fine as long as cash transfers are made to the people whose jobs were outsourced (nasty euphemism for 'moved to low wage sweatshops'), and who can't reasonable be expected to be immediately "retrained."
Cash transfers happen when they pay significantly less for goods.
Can't buy all that cheap garbage if you don't have a job.
Free trade is fine as long as cash transfers are made to the people whose jobs were outsourced (nasty euphemism for 'moved to low wage sweatshops'), and who can't reasonable be expected to be immediately "retrained."
Cash transfers happen when they pay significantly less for goods.
But then when you raise the minimum wage exponentially the cost for goods goes way up
Shorter: the government will need to pay our salaries when everything is taken over by robot labor.
Can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but that's pretty much where most jobs will end up eventually. It's called Basic Income.
The theory makes a lot of sense (assuming that you can get a government to properly fund it) ...
The danger is that if you take away people's ability to do anything critically whether it is think, work, etc., that's when you can see some substantial abuses taking place.
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The danger is that if you take away people's ability to do anything critically whether it is think, work, etc., that's when you can see some substantial abuses taking place.