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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
There is a growing movement trying to stop these changes though. People like Bernie Sanders, Robert Reich and Nick Hanuer are becoming increasingly active in getting people to see what is actually going on and how the economy has ended up in the shape it is in. At some point there needs to be a major economic shakeup, it's sad that things almost need to get to the point where people lose everything before deciding to fight for more.
Online shopping. The numbers are true for the retail industry, however there has also been an increase in jobs in parcel deliveries. Now Amazon is testing drone delivery. This is really where the workers/consumers themselves need to take the power back so to speak, they need to recognize the pattern and stop contributing to the problem. If a company is actively eliminating jobs to increase their profits under the guise of "making their purchases cheaper", they need to start shopping elsewhere. It's a pipe dream to expect most people to pay more for something, but if we won't pay the extra couple dollars to have a person deliver your package instead of a drone or to have a person be your cashier at the grocery store, we're really no better than the companies that are trying to profit from taking away those jobs to begin with and we're helping them do it every step of the way.
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You have made this argument or a similar one many times in many threads. And it's flat out wrong. Your not going to find a single economist who will tell you that subsidizing inefficient business models is going to win in the long run. It keeps people from retraining into jobs the economy wants and the waste slows the economy down. The 1-2 bucks you speak of, is something I presume you'd apply to many situations and you will simply be creating a honorable welfare system.
It's nice to have jobs, what you are arguing for sounds great. But your society will lose in the long run 100 out of 100 times. Efficient economies and Effiecient work forces will eat the lunch of the slow one. It's just a matter of time as commerce becomes more global and pace of change increases.
We don't need milk men coming to our doors every Monday and Thursday to exchange the little plastic tokens for cartons of milk, and society as a whole is worse off if we pretend we do.