The Facts of Life
Simple economics 1 technology has increasingly made hiring people less profitable than machines. 2 Of the jobs that are left cheap transportation has made it more profitable to offshore manufacturing to countries where the labor can be hired dirt cheap and ship it to countries with the money to buy the products 3 in the United States and in other countries housing has become an investment strategy for non-local owners. Every time a profit is made by the wealthy investors the profit comes from from those buying and renting the houses paying the costs in higher rents and mortgages leading to a variety of problems in their life including stress leading to health issues. 4 climate change and other environmental issues are in the process of causing great disruption to the economy --- So the question becomes: is it the goal of our society that all should have a chance to prosper or are we accepting of a society with a built-in large number of people who will at best str...