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In reply to the discussion: Are you an "automation denier"? [View all]duffyduff
(3,251 posts)Automation had absolutely nothing to do with the economic decline and the vast number of job gone over the past thirty-five years. This is a neoliberal meme that has been pushed the past couple of years in an attempt to deny that ruinous trade policies, to say nothing of other D.C. policies, are the causes of this country's economic decline.
Since I was well into adulthood when the Reagan/neoliberal policies started taking hold, I KNOW the "automation" explanation is total bullshit.
Anybody who wasn't around then and wants to know what happened, read the Barlett and Steele books that came out in 1992, 1994, 1996, and 2013. The reporters explain what happened to this country. It was deliberate policy set by those in D.C. to destroy living standards in the United States.