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applegrove

(118,502 posts)
Thu Jul 7, 2016, 08:22 PM Jul 2016

How come with basic income, a need when automation destroys work, liberals study it before they

implement it. Why when the right does something new, like neoliberalism or trickle down in the 1980s, why don't they study it before having it implemented? To see if it works. They must know it doesn't work and is just a transfer of wealth from working people to the rich.

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How come with basic income, a need when automation destroys work, liberals study it before they (Original Post) applegrove Jul 2016 OP
I don't want to have to work scscholar Jul 2016 #1
Because the right doesn't care if it works or not -- they just care if their Nay Jul 2016 #2
because they push their deadly products as if their jobs depended on success librechik Jul 2016 #3
 

scscholar

(2,902 posts)
1. I don't want to have to work
Thu Jul 7, 2016, 08:36 PM
Jul 2016

About 90% of my job could be replaced by an expert system that asks the right questions. Despite that, I still travel quite a bit to ask those questions.

Nay

(12,051 posts)
2. Because the right doesn't care if it works or not -- they just care if their
Fri Jul 8, 2016, 08:58 AM
Jul 2016

ideology is forced upon as many people as possible and rich people get richer.

librechik

(30,674 posts)
3. because they push their deadly products as if their jobs depended on success
Fri Jul 8, 2016, 10:19 AM
Jul 2016

which they do. So pretending the products work --for decades after they obviously fail-- is just part of the job.

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