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    1. Emmett Macfarlane  🇺🇦‏Verified account @EmmMacfarlane 2 Oct 2019

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      They do. But the implication isn't (I hope) 'we should tax Edison the cost of every lamplighter and candlemaker job before lightbulbs go on sale'. The answer is a social safety net. https://twitter.com/BestStephen/status/1179386702504304645 …

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Oct 2019
      Replying to @EmmMacfarlane

      I think this is plausible enough in theory but I'll note that a lot of the political turmoil in West comes from fact that in last 4 decades we've had combination of social safety net gutted with swift transformative economic change. So people are wary & scared

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        2. Daniel McNeil 🇨🇦 ❄️‏ @ToonTownDano 2 Oct 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @EmmMacfarlane

          Very true. Conservatives have been successful at is convincing nearly everyone that we can’t tax the corporate world on the profits they make from shedding jobs to automation. We keep reducing those taxes which make a new social safety net findable through deficit spending.

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        3. Bethankit Hums‏ @tangibullah 2 Oct 2019
          Replying to @ToonTownDano @softgrasswalker and

          Read this - it gets worse: https://www.nationalobserver.com/2017/03/30/news/are-irvings-canadas-biggest-corporate-welfare-bums …

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        2. Timothy Huyer‏ @tim4hire 2 Oct 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @EmmMacfarlane

          Our society has done a very poor job of distributing the gains made from increased productivity and other advances. Overall, we have done well, but, because labour mobility is not infinite, some end up much worse off. We need to find ways to addresss that (how, I don’t know).

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        3. Markham Hislop‏ @politicalham 2 Oct 2019
          Replying to @tim4hire @HeerJeet @EmmMacfarlane

          CD Howe recently did a study that found 50% of Canadian workers' skillsets were mismatched to the job they were doing. And there appears to be plenty of jobs going unfilled because employers can't find workers or workers with the right skills. Reskilling? Skill upgrading?

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        2. Emmett Macfarlane  🇺🇦‏Verified account @EmmMacfarlane 2 Oct 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          I'm not sure the "social safety net has been gutted" is an empirically true statement. Maybe in the US. Certainly not true of Canada.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 Oct 2019
          Replying to @EmmMacfarlane

          To a lesser degree than USA, yes, which might also explain why our politics have been less poisoned.

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