This is the future. It doesn’t include jobs for humans.
by David Atkins
This is the most important video you will watch all day.
This is real, and it is happening. A lot of people on both sides of the aisle don’t want to believe it’s true, for their own ideological reasons. The Right has a vested interest in unregulated capitalism continuing to provide a stable basis for economic life and magically “creating” jobs from nowhere. Much of the Left has a vested interest in organizing around labor–with very good reason, of course. But the idea that human dignity and self-identity and worth has to come from having a “job” is going to be an antiquated notion within our lifetimes, and increasingly problematic just within the next couple of decades.
The future will belong to the political faction that can anticipate and deal with the inevitability of this transition. Libertarianism certainly doesn’t have any answers for it. Will Democrats take the initiative to put the needed policies in place? That’s an open question–and it depends largely on people like you and me to get involved on the inside and make that happen.
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