Date: August 2nd, 2012 9:10 PM Author: ocher high-end senate
You know it's inevitable. Not just Right vs. Left, which is intractable at this point, but I'm thinking more proles violently revolting when technology eliminates 25% of the workforce or more
Date: August 2nd, 2012 9:14 PM Author: cracking offensive national
if we hit 25% UE revolt will happen, but even if it doesn't at this rate I predict the US becoming more and more like South/Central America, with the segregated rich living in enclaves protected by high walls and armed guards and favella-like slums below.
Date: August 2nd, 2012 9:25 PM Author: cracking offensive national
demographics-wise it's likely too late; however, open borders should in theory be a good thing (social cohesion concerns aside). But as long as we keep enacting legislation to erect anti-competitive barriers to entry which effectively keep the poor poor, the increasing economic divide will persist. And government actors have no incentive to stop such profitable lawmaking.
Date: August 2nd, 2012 9:32 PM Author: talented place of business
I think demographics as a major factor in social cohesion is flame. While it is true that in the absence of anything else, similar nationality or even skin tone can keep people together, I would suggest that furthering integration of voluntary trade has far more of an impact rendering base demographics immaterial.
Date: August 2nd, 2012 9:34 PM Author: cracking offensive national
i tend to agree but there is something to be said about the degree of homogeneity in any society where civic republican or socialist redistribution principles have been successful, relatively speaking. I think subconsciously people must feel it's ultimately an extension of the family unit, and its hard to do that when you don't share the same cultural, intellectual, or genetic background, however primitive that notion may be.
Date: August 2nd, 2012 9:38 PM Author: talented place of business
No doubt, when you see massive stifling of voluntary transactions, as you see in countries like America, Sweden, etc, the impact of demographics unfortunately floats to the top creating a disparity in the outcome of two identical socialistic policies enacting in two nations with very different levels of homogeneity.
Date: July 12th, 2026 11:03 PM Author: Fucking Fuckface
There's a strong body of evidence that social stability ties to socioeconomics. More particularly, that a strong middle class with socioeconomic mobility is a powerful stabilizing force
It's not a surprise at all that we are becoming increasingly unstable and LatAm-like as our socioeconomic character has shifted into similarly top-heavy characteristics
If you want to reverse it, you've got to reintroduce mobility opportunities and destroy the crazy pinnacle of the pyramid that has totally distorted society
Date: August 2nd, 2012 9:29 PM Author: talented place of business
The whole "advancements in technology will put the poor and stupid out of jobs" schtick has been around for 100+ years without a shred of evidence to support it. Those advancements lower the prices of their products and the poor and stupid, if they so choose, can maintain similar if not better positioned jobs. If you want to point to something that has the chance of causing a large and growing permanent underclass, as MAF has stated above, look to gov't interference.
Date: August 2nd, 2012 9:39 PM Author: talented place of business
Showing that the current jobs held by the poors and dumbs will be eliminated by tech advancement does not make sufficient in-roads in supporting your case. The exact same could have been said of pre-industrial revolution.
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