[Goose]

It's not about new skills. It's about the need to activate anti-trust laws to break up companies so that more jobs can be created. Automation is a scythe, or maybe I should call it an industrial combine whacking through so many livelihoods. There is software that uses AI to design logos, FFS. I now have a subscription to a web app that allows me to make high res files without the Adobe suite. Driverless freight trucks. Delivery drones. Even legal work is being automated.  So too is video production. 

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/7/1/2130...ht-network

The Congress needs to understand that giving people more money than they can make working is a better alternative than tens of millions of people unable to afford shelter and food because they can't afford it. Maybe building economies on the quicksand of debt, that forces thousands of bankruptcies and million of jobs down the toilet when the music stops, isn't such a great idea after all.

OF, FWIW I think this problem is much more complex than that. COVID-19 has hurried along a process in the US that has been going on in the EU in an accelerated form for at least a decade in terms of labor issues. We are now catching up (and maybe passing) them. These problems are exacerbated by COVID-19, but would have needed solving anyway. Talking about it here would certainly be beyond the Terry rule, so I won't attempt it.

[Goose]

It's not about new skills. It's about the need to activate anti-trust laws to break up companies so that more jobs can be created. Automation is a scythe, or maybe I should call it an industrial combine whacking through so many livelihoods. There is software that uses AI to design logos, FFS. I now have a subscription to a web app that allows me to make high res files without the Adobe suite. Driverless freight trucks. Delivery drones. Even legal work is being automated.  So too is video production. 

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/7/1/2130...ht-network

The Congress needs to understand that giving people more money than they can make working is a better alternative than tens of millions of people unable to afford shelter and food because they can't afford it. Maybe building economies on the quicksand of debt, that forces thousands of bankruptcies and million of jobs down the toilet when the music stops, isn't such a great idea after all.

OF, FWIW I think this problem is much more complex than that. COVID-19 has hurried along a process in the US that has been going on in the EU in an accelerated form for at least a decade in terms of labor issues. We are now catching up (and maybe passing) them. These problems are exacerbated by COVID-19, but would have needed solving anyway. Talking about it here would certainly be beyond the Terry rule, so I won't attempt it.