Gary Reber Comments:
What Mayor Pete Buttigieg understands what impact “automation” (actually all non-human things that can produce) has and will have on the future of production and the challenge for Americans to earn an income, when jobs are displaced with “machines,” he and all other political figures and academia, seem to push for education as a solution. Individual own these “productive things” that are displacing the necessity for human labor. Furthermore, while the national focus is always on job creation instead of ownership creation, our scientists, engineers, and executive managers who are not owners themselves, except for those in the highest employed positions, are encouraged to work to destroy employment by making the capital “worker” owner more productive. How much employment can be destroyed by substituting machines for people is a measure of their success — always focused on producing at the lowest cost. Only the people who already own productive capital are the beneficiaries of their work, as they systematically concentrate more and more capital ownership in their stationary 1 percent ranks. Yet the 1 percent is not the people who do the overwhelming consuming. The result is the consumer populous is not able to get the money to buy the goods, products, and services produced as a result of substituting “machines” for people. And yet you can’t have mass production without mass human consumption made possible by “customers with money.”
Abraham Lincoln said that the purpose of government is to do for people what they cannot do for themselves. Government also should serve to keep people from hurting themselves and to restrain man’s greed, which otherwise cannot be self-controlled. Anyone who seeks to own productive power that they cannot or won’t use for consumption are beggaring their neighbor — the equivalency of mass murder — the impact of concentrated capital ownership.
See my article “What Is Needed To Resolve The Destruction Of American Jobs Problem?” published by The Huffington Post at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/593adb89e4b0b65670e569e9.
Also see “Financing Economic Growth With ‘FUTURE SAVINGS’: Solutions To Protect America From Economic Decline” at http://www.foreconomicjustice.org/?p=17032, “The Income Solution To Slow Private Sector Job Growth” at http://www.foreconomicjustice.org/?p=9872, and “A Solution To Eroding Retirement Security” at http://www.foreconomicjustice.org/?p=10470.
Also see the article entitled “The Solution To America’s Economic Decline” at http://www.foreconomicjustice.org/?p=16730, and “Education Is Critical To Our Future Societal Development” at http://www.foreconomicjustice.org/?p=9058.
