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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (320145)	2/8/2025 4:11:21 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 355897

With chaos, comes opportunity. And it is really exciting to read about in books or experience in a movie. But, as you note, it sucks for the vast majority of people. The 20th century was dominated by trying to tame the instability of the 19th that culminated in two somewhat inconvenient wars. The 19th century itself was stuffed to the gills with increasingly destructive wars. Wars have always been destructive. Catastrophic, even. But the First Industrial Revolution shifted death from personal and retail to wholesale. and just another job. Not better, but sheds more efficient.

To: Lane3 who wrote (320145)	2/8/2025 4:59:32 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Recommended By longz Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 355897

>> Immediately, chaos. How? People living on the dole are suddenly going have no dole to live on? Right now you could be, for example, in the middle of a drug trial and be suddenly cut off. You sold your house an bought another and the job disappears. You're half way through some education program and the industry or the job doesn't exist anymore. Contracts are invalidated on a dime. These things happen all the time. Drug trials get cancelled every single day. There may not be enough enrollment, it can fail after it starts, it can just be cancelled because the manufacturer didn't want to pay for it anymore, safety issues, etc. That's part of drug trials. The worst, is when they aren't held because there it isn't a newly created drug, but a repurposed one that no drug company would fund. A lot of jobs are going to be lost in the coming years. That's the nature of progress. The only question now is how many tens of millions will be permanently without work? And yes, we're in a New Industrial Revolution, in which people aren't a necessary part of the process. While it is bad for one to lose his work, it is going to fall to government to fund these people who lost their jobs. And we can't do it if we are wasting millions of dollars in USAID paying for $8 million subscriptions to Politico. We just got rid of the Old Way by firing Biden. Trump is the New Way. The Old Way was never going to meet the needs of people except the political elites. The New way is putting ordinary interests ahead of the DC insider interests. Are you intentionally putting the future on the back-burner? Five years from now a vast number of workers will be supplanted by automatons which can do most jobs faster-better-cheaper. Without training Without pay, without taking time off or vacation. Most importantly, they don't have to grow up and be trained. They are "born" knowing how to do everything. We're in for a shock. The real chaos will occur if we haven't vastly shrunken government in time for this new kind of industrial revolution.