Monday, August 12, 2019
False binary
From candidate Yang:
I’ve done the MATH, it’s not immigrants taking our jobs, it’s automation. Instead of blaming immigrants, let's give our citizens the means to thrive through the fourth industrial revolution.
Misses the REAL problem, which is offshoring. Immigrants are taking a few jobs in some places, but those jobs are still done by locals in areas without immigrants. Automation deleted lots of jobs between 1920 and 1980, but not many since 1980. The MAIN problem since 1980 is offshoring.
Doing the math is meaningless if you're ignoring part of the data.
HOWEVER: Yang says some unusually rational and realistic things about human nature and culture. Nowhere near the RIGOROUS PRECISE realism of McAfee's observations, but considerably above the bizarre lethal brain-dissolving hyperhyperhyperdelusions emitted by all other politicians.
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