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Bernardo de La Paz

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22. Yes, next decade will be a bit bumpy & the one after a bit more so. The solution is ...
Sat Mar 2, 2019, 09:08 AM
Mar 2019

... one that the anti-socialist anti-communist anti-poor pro-tax-cut Trump-Republicon Party will hate.

... one that truly perceptive capitalists will embrace.

... one that is tried and tested and has (in smaller form) had big benefits for the US already.



I think what is needed is for society to guarantee a basic floor with the big three: Housing, health care, and a basic income for expenses.

EVERYWHERE THIS HAS BEEN TRIED IT HAS HAD POSITIVE EFFECTS: reduced policing needs, lower health costs, higher employment, fewer social problems. It saves money!

Hypocritical moralists and greedy people are blind to the fact (proven many times) that, when given the big three, people don't goof off and quit jobs and laze around. Quite the opposite. With a stable situation including less interruption due to health crises, people seek and find more jobs and work harder.

If the big three are taken care of for ALL residents in a nation, then capitalists would be much freer to introduce production and service systems that we can expect to lead to job losses and job transformations.

The nation can afford it. It truly can and the synergistic effects are wonderful. Look at the huge boom in the 1950s and 60s when massive GI housing, health care, and education expenditures were operative.

Pay attention capitalists! The alternatives all include social unrest in varying and greater degrees.

Well, yeah, companies could pay them better & stop treating truckers like dirt. Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2019 #1
Yes and they often have to pay for exboyfil Mar 2019 #5
"Every freaking job is driven to the edge." It's untenable for society, can't last, won't last. . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2019 #7
You are 100% correct...it won't last... Moostache Mar 2019 #10
don't count on plumbers and electricians to be ok Hermit-The-Prog Mar 2019 #17
Yes, next decade will be a bit bumpy & the one after a bit more so. The solution is ... Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2019 #22
So much this. susanna Mar 2019 #19
This is the info. Corgigal Mar 2019 #6
Time to go back to the railroads SoCalNative Mar 2019 #2
Excellent Point gainesvillenole Mar 2019 #14
All part of the income & wealth inequality that is the biggest undiscussed problem the USA faces. Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2019 #3
The ran off all the old fat guys that drove trucks. I know, I was one of them. In my case, bucking brewens Mar 2019 #4
Capitalism 101. Better pay, more drivers. Tsk that industry CEOs forgot their own rules. Doremus Mar 2019 #8
CEOs use the crutch of the "fiduciary responsibility" to mean only the next 30-90 days matter. Moostache Mar 2019 #11
It is only a matter of time before they go driverless genxlib Mar 2019 #9
That's my guess safeinOhio Mar 2019 #13
Could rail be used (again) to take up some of the slack? theophilus Mar 2019 #12
Having been an OTR driver for 30 years..... A HERETIC I AM Mar 2019 #15
Thanks. That was insightful esp w respect to rail and OO %. Good to see swapping. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2019 #20
Based on this quote, it isn't because of the pay MichMan Mar 2019 #16
I think Darren Tristano is full of shit TexasBushwhacker Mar 2019 #18
It never is, to CEOs. WhiskeyGrinder Mar 2019 #21
The trucking industry started going in the tank bluecollar2 Mar 2019 #23
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