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The genius of the former bartender, now economic planner for the greatest economy the planet has ever seen ...

AOC: Unemployment Is Exciting

It almost sounds like a joke, However Ocasio-Cortez is not joking in the slightest bit. Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said on Saturday that people should be “excited” about “being automated out of work” and suggested that she supports taxing corporations at 90%.

Ocasio-Cortez made the remarks while speaking at the left-leaning South by Southwest Conference & Festival in Austin, Texas — where she also said America was in a state of “garbage” and suggested that former President Ronald Reagan was a racist.

“We should not be haunted by the specter of being automated out of work,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “We should not feel nervous about, you know, the toll booth collector not having to collect tolls anymore. We should be excited by that,” Ocasio-Cortez continued. “But the reason we’re not excited by it is because we live in a society where if you don’t have a job, you are left to die, and that is at its core a problem. And so there are a lot of different solutions— a lot of different proposed, uh, ideas about how we go about that.”

Ocasio-Cortez then appeared to support Bill Gates’ idea of “taxing robots at 90 percent,” explaining: “what that means— what he’s really talking about is taxing corporations at 90 percent, um, but it’s easier to say tax a robot.”

Ocasio-Cortez’s comments about how “it's a core problem” that people should have to work in order to live goes back to her far-left Green New Deal, which stated that it would provide “Economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work.”

Her remarks that people should not be worried about losing their jobs to automation is absurd, as recent reports predict that tens of millions of Americans will be jobless in the coming decades due to automation.

https://preservefreedom.org/aoc-unemployment-is-exciting/

Oh, Americans should not have to worry about something as minor as "working" because mommy government will pay all the bills? By taxing unicorn farts and bartender tips at 1 billion percent, I guess.

What a ******* moron.
 
The genius of the former bartender, now economic planner for the greatest economy the planet has ever seen ...

AOC: Unemployment Is Exciting

It almost sounds like a joke, However Ocasio-Cortez is not joking in the slightest bit. Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said on Saturday that people should be “excited” about “being automated out of work” and suggested that she supports taxing corporations at 90%.

Ocasio-Cortez made the remarks while speaking at the left-leaning South by Southwest Conference & Festival in Austin, Texas — where she also said America was in a state of “garbage” and suggested that former President Ronald Reagan was a racist.

“We should not be haunted by the specter of being automated out of work,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “We should not feel nervous about, you know, the toll booth collector not having to collect tolls anymore. We should be excited by that,” Ocasio-Cortez continued. “But the reason we’re not excited by it is because we live in a society where if you don’t have a job, you are left to die, and that is at its core a problem. And so there are a lot of different solutions— a lot of different proposed, uh, ideas about how we go about that.”

Ocasio-Cortez then appeared to support Bill Gates’ idea of “taxing robots at 90 percent,” explaining: “what that means— what he’s really talking about is taxing corporations at 90 percent, um, but it’s easier to say tax a robot.”

Ocasio-Cortez’s comments about how “it's a core problem” that people should have to work in order to live goes back to her far-left Green New Deal, which stated that it would provide “Economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work.”

Her remarks that people should not be worried about losing their jobs to automation is absurd, as recent reports predict that tens of millions of Americans will be jobless in the coming decades due to automation.

https://preservefreedom.org/aoc-unemployment-is-exciting/

Oh, Americans should not have to worry about something as minor as "working" because mommy government will pay all the bills? By taxing unicorn farts and bartender tips at 1 billion percent, I guess.

What a ******* moron.

Wow, I really have no words for that.
 
Wow, I really have no words for that.

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so it's easier for Bill Gates to say "tax a robot" because his mouth cannot form the word "tax a corporation".
slightly true, but I'd also guess that even if Bill Gates gave away 90% of his checking account, he'd still have more cash at his disposal than 90% of all former bartenders.
 
I hope, for our children's sake, that we can look back at this and laugh.
I fear that another civil war might delay that.
 
...we live in a society where if you don’t have a job, you are left to die, and that is at its core a problem.

No. In India if you don't have a job you are left to die. Here you can get hot meals, a place to stay, you probably have relatives...

In India when you are homeless and sleep in the park, cobras curl up next to you in the night to share your body warmth. It often ends badly.
 
No. In India if you don't have a job you are left to die. Here you can get hot meals, a place to stay, you probably have relatives...

In India when you are homeless and sleep in the park, cobras curl up next to you in the night to share your body warmth. It often ends badly.

I heard a stat that said 20k people die each year in India of snakebite. Blows my mind.


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Well, eventually we will have to confront an economy or society that just won't need the amount of work hours to provide our GNP and standard of living we want.

I hate to break this to people, but every job that technology makes obsolete does not create a "new job" in equal numbers (or equal in required manhours).

For example, there are over 7 million people that work in the "trucking industry", half of which are drivers. What is automated vehicles going to do that workforce? There just will not be another "industry" the can absorb 3 million high-school educated people that will be unemployed because trucks are going to start driving themselves.

Yes, maybe mechanics will be needed. Maybe more people to unload/load. But in pure man hours required it will be a HUGE reduction in work needed in our country to continue doing what we are doing.

Honestly, I don't know how to handle it. Maybe we need a robot tax. Maybe we need to change the workweek to 32 hours instead of 40 hours. Maybe we need a basic income.

But there is no doubt that automation and computers and 21st century industrialization produces more on less human work hours. And that trend will continue maybe forever. It's an interesting economic hypothesis on how to handle it.
 
I heard a stat that said 20k people die each year in India of snakebite. Blows my mind.


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You search on google and I've seen up to 60,000 deaths per year in India. Very hard to pin down exactly how many.

WHO says 80-120k die from snake bites in the world. And most say half of those are in India.
 
You search on google and I've seen up to 60,000 deaths per year in India. Very hard to pin down exactly how many.

WHO says 80-120k die from snake bites in the world. And most say half of those are in India.

I bet alot of them are from people trying to play cobra whisperer. I saw i video of people in thailand pulling a 12ft king cobra from a sewer and they were just grabbing it wherever. I am cautious handling any snake i certainly would not br treating a king cobra like a rubber snake.
 
Snakes are pure slithering evil, filled with hate. They can all die in fire.

Farmer urinating in a field is left in agony after a snake bites him on the penis
The Indian farmer was bitten by a venomous Levantine viper

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Don't tell people you are going to take their snakes, just do it.
 
Snakes can't possibly need more than 4 teeth. If they need more than 4 teeth, then they are terrible hunters.
 
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