According to Robert Reich, the country is divided like this: "On one side, mega-urban clusters centered on technologies of the future. On the other, great expanses of space inhabited by people left behind." I feel he misses two points. First, there is far more inequality in the so-called most progressive coastal states than there is in the heartland. Second, the technologies of the future are increasingly making location irrelevant. Sooner than he can imagine, the masses of underemployed in California and New York will cast an envious eye at the gilded lives of the hi-tech plutocracy in their states... and come for theirs!
Link: http://prospect.org/article/amazon-and-america%E2%80%99s-real-divide
Replies to: "People left behind?"
- People left behind? [LINK]
- Curly1918 - 10:00am 11/13/18
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- Alexandria is not fond of mega-urban clusters... at least not ones that might gentrify her district [NT] [LINK] - Curly1918 - 2:37pm 11/13/18
- It is hilarious the latest - WoodstockIrish - 12:23pm 11/13/18
- Yeah, don't judge me if I am a Democrat, but judge everything if I am a Republican. Classify me, - THEISMANCARR - 3:09pm 11/13/18
- So who is going to feed these tech/industrial centers? What a smug, smacked ass. [NT]
- Frank L - 11:30am 11/13/18
- Seems like an extension of identity politics. - iairishcheeks - 4:42pm 11/13/18
- Reich is the biggest asshole in The Lollipop Guild. [NT]
- TakethetrainKnute - 11:33am 11/13/18
- That and his mouth are the only bigly things about him. [NT] - Frank L - 11:39am 11/13/18
- . [NT] - Frank L - 11:39am 11/13/18