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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (314393)	10/16/2016 2:17:33 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542139

The equation regarding how our society can best go forward is actually pretty clear. We need to write down the major variables we are working with and then address them as a whole. For example, there are simply limits to growth and pollution, AGW must be dealt with, and the existential threat realities like nuclear weapons presents; and the new economic reality will involve robots doing most of the work. And it is becoming a truism that all civilized countries provide free medical care and I actually think free schooling. Certainly affordable schooling. And abject poverty can not be endured like it is now e.g. the homeless must be taken care of.. The fact of the matter, is that we need to design a brand-new society that fits the above variables, with the end product being a happy and healthy society. How do we make our society happy and healthy and inclusive of everyone? The only way to effectively do this, is going to be with income redistribution. We're going to have to decide that a large well-to-do middle-class is more important than a lot of very rich people and a lot of very poor people. The United States has become 65th in the world in income inequality. That sort of slipped right on by us and it was never addressed directly until Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. And that is why the millennial's like them so much. I believe the reason it slipped by us is because the Republicans have been demagoguing taxes for 70 years and it takes taxes to build a healthy society. Taxes are the cost of civilization. But the Republicans have been in control of the country most of the time and they have always run on lowering taxes. And the voters supported them. But the millennial's see through this ruse. And they will be supported by women who are concerned about raising the children, minorities that have been shorted, forever, and the LGBT community because they know unfaiirness and hardship and are sympathetic to it. But I have confidence the millennial's will see this reality and then work towards changing things for the better. We started in this direction in the 60s, and then we got waylaid by the temptations of the revolutionary consumer society and simple hedonism which replaced much of the 60s cerebral goals.