Opposition to this isn't "if not trade, automation will destroy your jobs!" Feels like "nyah nyah nyah". Instead—politics of valuing humans.
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Replying to @zeynep
"Trade and/or automation" do not destroy jobs and livelihoods. It's the way we've all set it up. It's us; our politics; our power structure.
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Replying to @zeynep
Stop treating current form of trade & automation as exogenous forces of nature that fall on our hapless society. Big part of current crisis.
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If trade & automation *have* to happen in current form like forces of nature, then politics means nothing. So, many vote to burn it down.
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Replying to @JthollandWingo
So that is an interesting and historically very long thread... People have thought that for hundreds of years. Not 140..
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But it is not a vacuous thought. There is a contradiction, a tension of varying sizes depending on historic moment.
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