In 1995, Rifkin contended that worldwide unemployment would increase as information technology eliminated tens of millions of jobs in the manufacturing, agricultural and service sectors. He predicted devastating impact of automation on blue-collar, retail and wholesale employees. While a small elite of corporate managers and knowledge workers would reap the benefits of the high-tech world economy, the American middle class would continue to shrink and the workplace become ever more stressful.
As the market economy and public sector decline, Rifkin predicted the growth of a third sector—voluntary and community-based service organizations—that would create new jobs with government support to rebuild decaying neighborhoods and provide social services. To finance this enterprise, he advocated scaling down the military budget, enacting a value added tax on nonessential goods and services and redirecting federal and state funds to provide a "social wage" in lieu of welfare payments to third-sector workers.[1]
Ha, a "social wage!" No, that's not welfare at all, because they use a different word for it. See how easy it is to get people off welfare? You just change the term for it and boom! No more welfare.
Maybe our taxes are so high because all the federal government does is create more and more programs that never go away and are never defunded.. it's a beast that keeps on growing.
This is the opposite of what our founders wanted when they created our nation. The federal government was supposed to be as lean as possible with only certain essentials reserved for it. Things like a national military to defend the fledgling country, the ability to create trade deals and treaties on behalf of the collective states, and a unified banking system. Not much more than that.
The heroic founders would be agast at what we've done to their grand experiment. Our country has survived this long, but won't much longer as the Constitution is discarded and the rule of law no longer means a thing.
This was an unrecognized warning book from 1995 (I think). We have been asleep. I hope (and expect) that it is not too late for the great awakening...worldwide.
You ever read this book?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Work
Ha, a "social wage!" No, that's not welfare at all, because they use a different word for it. See how easy it is to get people off welfare? You just change the term for it and boom! No more welfare.
Maybe our taxes are so high because all the federal government does is create more and more programs that never go away and are never defunded.. it's a beast that keeps on growing.
This is the opposite of what our founders wanted when they created our nation. The federal government was supposed to be as lean as possible with only certain essentials reserved for it. Things like a national military to defend the fledgling country, the ability to create trade deals and treaties on behalf of the collective states, and a unified banking system. Not much more than that.
The heroic founders would be agast at what we've done to their grand experiment. Our country has survived this long, but won't much longer as the Constitution is discarded and the rule of law no longer means a thing.
This was an unrecognized warning book from 1995 (I think). We have been asleep. I hope (and expect) that it is not too late for the great awakening...worldwide.
Thanks u/Q10191776 👈🏻
I appreciate your comments and source info. Most appreciated.
Sounds like communism
Written around 1995. There were warning signs, but we were asleep and didn't recognize their significance.
Sounds sickening.