We must, if we are to survive, see that our existence is vitally connected with the equally important existence of the other.
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Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.
There is a huge problem that no politician will talk about: We just don’t need labor like we used to.
So much of what it takes to maintain a middle class life style is produced by fewer and fewer people. I was told by an economist that only 15% of the people in society make 100% of the stuff. This includes food, housing clothing all of it. This means that 85% of us are either unemployed or in the service sector.
How many hair-cut’s, counseling appointments and doctors visits does the economy need? Not enough to employ 85% of the population that’s for sure.
And I recently saw a headline that said HALF of all current jobs can be done more cheaply by computers RIGHT NOW.
Who is going to buy the products of capitalism?
A new system will emerge over the next generation or two. It will not be a painless process.
There is a huge problem that no politician will talk about: We just don’t need labor like we used to.
So much of what it takes to maintain a middle class life style is produced by fewer and fewer people. I was told by an economist that only 15% of the people in society make 100% of the stuff. This includes food, housing clothing all of it. This means that 85% of us are either unemployed or in the service sector.
How many hair-cut’s, counseling appointments and doctors visits does the economy need? Not enough to employ 85% of the population that’s for sure.
And I recently saw a headline that said HALF of all current jobs can be done more cheaply by computers RIGHT NOW.
Who is going to buy the products of capitalism?
A new system will emerge over the next generation or two. It will not be a painless process.