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Old 10-09-2019, 07:38 AM   #7362 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by sendler View Post
Many converging bottlenecks coming at us. Globalization and automation are making the free market for labor no longer functional enough to provide an acceptable income for increasing numbers of people.
There is not evidence of that. The world's wealth per GDP has been on the rise with globalization and automation. An increasing number of people are no longer impoverished. Life expectancy is way up.

Perhaps resource shortages will pose a problem in the future, but that is a different issue than globalization and automation.
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