Comments by "Curious Crow" (@CuriousCrow-mp4cx) on "What everyone is getting wrong about Trump’s trade war" video.

  1. The facts as you present them are 100% accurate and true. But when people are fearful, anxious, or resentful, they no longer use reason to make their decisions. It's not that they are stupid, but their emotions are stronger than their reason. Add to that, a technocratic, abstract, and distant style of communicating, together with a string tendency to pay attention to the views of asset wealthy business owners, financiers, and billionaires who donate to them, and a reductive view of the electorate, adds to people feeling that their concerns aren't be listened to. So they act from how that makes them feel. And don't consider cause and effect. Like Google blew up with people researching tariffs after they had already voted for Trump, and it was too late. Sadly, if Trump gets his way, the same lessons learnt earlier in history will have to learnt again. And the consumer who isn't asset wealthy will bear the costs. But that's the way it goes. But what isn't okay is that jobs aren't paying a living wage to workers. Distribution of the wealth gained what the US does is skewed completely to the benefit of those at the top. And help is needed to direct and reskill the workforce, to work in high tech industries. That's what's missing. So those at the bottom are getting left behind, and it's not their problem. It's everyone's problem, simply because the economy relies on consumer spending to grow. And as work is cukturally favoured over UBI, all developed nations need to have a discussion about how we address this problem. Nobody's talking about this. Even though in the next decade or so, AI is threatening to shed jobs.
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