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JDPriestly

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4. I don't know how to do it, but we have to put and end to the huge
Sat Apr 20, 2013, 07:37 AM
Apr 2013

disparity in income between the rich and the rest of us. We are the 99%. It isn't just a slogan. It is the reality. And our economy cannot succeed as long as there is such a huge disparity.

As I said, I do not know what to do about this.

It's partly caused intentionally by the excessive greed of the rich and their purchase of political power. But it is also caused by computers and outsourcing and the change to a global economy in which capital is free to move around but, labor is by its very nature, stuck.

People cannot easily move away from family, their homes. Capital can travel without suffering the losses that human beings do.

The other day, a DUer was arguing in favor of the right to just work in any country you want. That may be OK if you are young and single, have no children, no elderly parents, no disabled family members or other relationships that tie you to a place or a culture. That idea assumes that you learn languages easily and travel well.

It's crazy. I tried it. It works when you are young, and then you just want to go home. People really do eventually get homesick.

There are lots of ideas about how to deal with the technological changes in the workplace, but I don't know which of them are practical.

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