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Originally Posted by redpoint5
BTW- The American Federation of Teachers spends more on lobbying than Koch, and backs about 0.5% Republicans, which suggests they are even less independent minded. The frightening thing about this is that teachers interact and shape our children, so they tend to be exposed to groupthink echochambers of shallow thinking.
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/top...083&cycle=2018
The cost of resources is tied to the labor to extract. If that's automated then the cost plummets. There are certain constraints such as land suitable for farming which will set prices at some bottom level, but even energy can eventually be automated with robots building solar/wind/nuclear.... and maintaining it all.
Statistics lie anyhow concerning wealth distribution. Ask the bottom 25% if they would rather be the bottom 25% now, or be the bottom 25% in 2000. They can go back to not owning cell phones, standard definition 27" TVs, and terrible sitcoms.
The real problem is that an increasingly complex world increasingly dispossess a larger percentage of the bottom portion of society. That's how we end up with increasingly popular yet tragically simplistic ideas that if the problem is wealth inequality, than socialism is the best solution. It's a concept that only sounds good if ones understanding of how things work extends out only 1 move into the future. |
Anybody can be a teacher. AFAIK, nobody is banned from the profession for supporting one of the 2 political parties of yours. So IDK why they'd only influence one side, unless one side is strictly party line on education matters while the other is more open. Just guessing.
(the same may apply to energy policies - if the Democrats vote strictly on party lines it makes no sense to pay anyone of them)
As teachers go they should be divided over both parties, how can they not be? They are a subset of the American People.
Which the oil industry is not. That is money exerting power.
Don't blame teachers for wealth inequality. Blame those that want you to buy an oversized pickup truck on loans.
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