Certainly the globalism hasn't been any more disruptive to the labor market than the industrial revolution.SuburbanFarmer wrote: ↑Mon Dec 10, 2018 11:32 amIronically, taking away the livelihood of entire economies through undercutting the international market with agri-subsidies causes those people to turn to our government for the same things.heydaralon wrote: ↑Mon Dec 10, 2018 10:35 amAre you a fan of open borders? To be honest, the offshoring and what not is probably something our society could get a tourniquet on if we stopped letting in the entire third world. Unfortunately, Libertarianism wants both things, which is a main reason we are in the current situation. I don't like big govt either, but at some point it needs to be acknowledged that removing the livelihood of entire regions causes the people in that area to turn to the government through welfare and EBT to protect them from the unpredictability of the market.
The industrial revolution has allowed for human empowerment like never before.
The reality is that this is a temporary phase we are in currently. Assuming we avoid the machine abolition of man, this labor disruption was a required phase to get from here to there...