Even America’s worst-ever president can educate us.
He calls out fake news. We are not yet calling out fake history.
America’s founders changed as little as they could.
Ending slavery was a start. We killed many of each other.
Howard Zinn’s A People’s History was another start,
James Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me has an updated second edition.
There are many more than those two.
Our religiosity is an anchor we have to drag.
Our plutocratic oligarchy? There’s a Move to Amend group out to fix that.
Have you compared our Constitution to those of more recently free nations, i.e. South Africa? Ruth Bader Ginsburg on SCOTUS had good reason to read it.
Be patient, Herb.
How can Americans be so ignorant of the US political system of bribing politicians to enact corporate-friendly policies? Or maybe it’s not ignorance. Maybe we simply CHOOSE to sustain the status quo to maintain our own comforts, the rest of society be damned.
It'd be great if government policy was to ELIMINATE as many jobs as possible through automation.
Some jobs are not expendable of course, but maybe 50% would be a good intermediate goal.
The unemployed would have an enviable life, but not as good as the employed, so employment would still be the aspiration of many.
What? The unemployed would have an enviable life?
As enviable as the lives of the homeless in many cities?
Is that what you meant, or did I misread your comment?
@yvilletom Yes, in this fantasy world people would be intentionally relieved from the burden of repetitive, boring, tedious, routine, soul-crushing tasks better done by machines.
After all, if goods and services can be better manufactured/produced without human labor, shouldn't they be?
This would emancipate millions, even billions, from rote activities, freeing them to create, invent, and innovate.
Formal employment in fields requiring human labor--technical, research and development, administrative, etc., etc.--would be rewarded above and beyond the unemployeds' standard of living, so jobs would still be coveted.
There is an excellent argument for continuing this practice.
If we switch to single payer, how will the health insurance mafia continue to get rich off of the desperation of sick people?
This is America, Profit over People
Profit generation by turning people into consumption-units of wealth production for the elite.
Goal: invention of androids which are near-perfect replicas of humans, into which the elite can download their consciousnesses, to achieve immortality.