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Jun 13, 2015, 12:11 PM
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Desert Kitty hates titles
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Member Since: Jul 2008
Location: TARDIS
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I also want to say that as more people are replaced by machines, the less work will be available for humans. And that means less $ to spend on the goods/services the machines make or provide.
After graduating with a degree, you can only hope you not only get a job that pays enough to pay off that loan, but hope the $#%@*! employer doesn't lay you off.
The long-term unemployed and underemployed are not counted in the government's "statistics". So, the unemployment rate is higher than they say it is, but since they don't have accurate numbers, they can't/won't acknowledge the problem. And care enough for a solution. They only count people collecting unemployment.
Once people run out of it, they drop out of the system, falling through the cracks as well a lot of times.
The U.S. is no utopia. I see a dystopia in the making.
It's the stuff of sci-fi and dystopian books/movies all the time. The mighty American empire falls, just like Rome did.
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