re: #129 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

There are two discussions going on, and the TPGOP switch orientation depending on which policy they are promoting: first of all, there is the social component, their vaunted “dignity of hard work” argument, and bootstrapping and building a better life, etc.

But where is the dignity in a job that does not allow a person to feed and educate his kids to lead a better life? Or where he has to work multiple jobs to make ends meet and has no time to raise his family?

Suddenly the argument switches to labor as a purely economic component, one which will be “replaced by a machine” if it grows too expensive.

Corporations are people and people are office supplies.

The HURR HURR A MACHINE CAN DO UR JRRB!!!! is silly. There will always be automation but human interaction is still required. There have been self-checkouts at stores like Walmart and Meijer for years but people still prefer a human cashier, especially for large orders.

There already is a burger-making machine but in spite of its rollout with much fanfare two years ago, it is not actually being used anywhere, not even in Asia where they like these kind of innovations.