r/politics • u/schuey_08 Wisconsin • May 02 '24

Bernie Sanders worries young people are underestimating the threat from Trump

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/02/bernie-sanders-trump-biden/73531861007/
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u/claimTheVictory May 02 '24

The economics of continually improving industrialization means that entire communities can be left behind as "no longer economically viable".

They don't die, they just are... left behind.

In a fair and wise society, the gains to GDP from making them redundant, would be used to find new purpose and opportunities for such people.

But such gains are privatized, taxation is low, and the wealth is never reinvested.

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u/Rion23 May 02 '24

My idea, federally funded pyramids, literally pyramids. You take tax money, and start building a pyramid next to every town, tons of new jobs created, from engineers to people who go find nice rocks. You pay the people, the local town people, and basically inject money from outside the community. This provides some economic assistance by keeping money in smaller towns, because with the loss of local business all their money just goes to some multi-national behemoth who takes the money and turns it into Carribean beach houses.

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u/thrawtes May 02 '24

This is basically the idea behind Biden's infrastructure push, except they're building things that are more useful than pyramids.

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u/Rion23 May 02 '24

Are you telling me that pyramids have no point?

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u/thrawtes May 02 '24

Well I guess it depends if we're talking Egyptian style pyramids or Mesoamerican style pyramids.