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Amazon would still have paid tax revenue, and, more likely than not, other tech startups would have followed, growing the taxable population even further.
History suggests another explanation, which has been left unexamined that radicalized union leadership is part, perhaps the primary part, of the problem.
Research indicated that improved technological entertainment options, primarily video games, are responsible for between 20 and 33 percent of reduced work hours.
Focusing on immigration policy through the lens of political allegiance is both dangerous and often ahistorical.
His campaign focuses on solving the problem of job losses to automation—an issue many politicians seem happy to ignore.
“Rising inequality” has become a catch-all explanation with which politicians, journalists, and intellectuals can wave away the actual concerns of “populists,” with abstract talk about the “underlying economic causes” — few if any of which stand up to scrutiny.
There is good reason for the controversy. Early in the book, Reeves lays out the inconvenient truth: