Message from @Pepin

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2019-03-08 08:12:12 UTC  

Andrew Yang is an idiot

2019-03-08 08:12:28 UTC  

Rand Paul is where it's at

2019-03-08 08:16:32 UTC  

@Kaladin How so? Andrew Yang seems to have a great deal of common sense about him. I was impressed in more than one way.

2019-03-08 08:18:43 UTC  

He believes in an UBI

2019-03-08 08:18:47 UTC  

Just that

2019-03-08 08:18:52 UTC  

nothing more needs to be said

2019-03-08 08:27:36 UTC  

Rand paul votes against trump. He is not acceptable

2019-03-08 08:29:27 UTC  

He votes for what is right

2019-03-08 08:29:42 UTC  

I mean, not as good an ron, but sill the best man in government rn

2019-03-08 08:33:21 UTC  

Not like we're getting a wall

2019-03-08 08:33:43 UTC  

Might as well get $1,000 a month

2019-03-08 08:33:52 UTC  

We need landmines and turrets

2019-03-08 08:36:00 UTC  

That $1000 a month will have bad consequences

2019-03-08 08:36:00 UTC  

Do you know why he brings up UBI? @Kaladin We coming very shortly to the reality of automation of many more jobs. Particularly truck drivers. He is one of the only ones to bring up the way technology will change the economy

2019-03-08 08:36:42 UTC  

Yeah so? Automation isn't bad for the economy, it is better for the average person to have lower prices.

2019-03-08 08:37:26 UTC  

It will be 3-4x as many jobs being replaced than the previous change in automation

2019-03-08 08:37:58 UTC  

What will happen to the millions of truck drivers ? The rust belt has never recovered

2019-03-08 08:38:24 UTC  

We don't work to work, we work to have a better life. But the division of labour is a thing, and specialisation. With automation, we will just have more jobs in different sectors, maybe in another sector that doesn't exist yet

2019-03-08 08:38:25 UTC  

This would be devastating unless you're a CEO in a big liberal city

2019-03-08 08:39:13 UTC  

Well most jobs in a big city

2019-03-08 08:39:41 UTC  

But that's not the reality

2019-03-08 08:39:59 UTC  

I want a source for the number of truck drivers, but I don't see how it is bad to have cheaper transport costs. And they can train to get into a new profession, or maybe the jobs won't all disappear overnight, because it's a gradual change

2019-03-08 08:40:10 UTC  

It is, and has been for the last 200 years

2019-03-08 08:40:47 UTC  

Are you fan of Tucker Carlson?

2019-03-08 08:41:09 UTC  

I like some of things, but not really

2019-03-08 08:41:26 UTC  

I’m sleepy

2019-03-08 08:41:28 UTC  

And he is very wrong on economics

2019-03-08 08:41:41 UTC  

Maybe get some rest?

2019-03-08 08:42:12 UTC  

But yeah, I'm a tom woods guy

2019-03-08 08:44:08 UTC  

If you look at the backdrop we automated away 4 million jobs in Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Missouri. And those communities have never recovered.

2019-03-08 08:44:58 UTC  

Where if you look at the numbers. Half of the workers left the work force and never worked again.

2019-03-08 08:45:20 UTC  

And then half of that group filed for disabilities

2019-03-08 08:45:21 UTC  

Yeah, that's shit. But you can't solve that with an UBI, nor is that necessary a national problem

2019-03-08 08:45:28 UTC  

Source please

2019-03-08 08:45:49 UTC  

Question, do you support the tariffs?

2019-03-08 08:47:46 UTC  

I don't do sources. waste of time. Hopefully you don't need a source to understand that this automation will happen to truckdrivers, retail workers, fast food workers. On and on and on through the economy.

2019-03-08 08:48:21 UTC  

As we evolve in technology we marginalize the labor of more and more Americans

2019-03-08 08:48:21 UTC  

Okay, so I'm supposed to take your word as truth that half the work force never worked again?

2019-03-08 08:49:04 UTC  

The automation of jobs seems a bit too obvious for me to waste time finding where I read it

2019-03-08 08:49:12 UTC  

But...that's completely factually incorrect. At the dawn of the 20th century, agriculture was the biggest sector, now it's less than 1%. That's not a bad thing for the economy.

2019-03-08 08:49:24 UTC  

I mean the part about half the work force never working again