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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
What does he say?
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Among myriad other points:
1. Protectionism doesn’t work;
2. Expect a lot more protectionism;
3. Globalism as currently practiced increases inequality exponentially;
4. Winners in globalism don’t care and won’t do anything to change the system providing them such a huge windfall;
4. Trump is a demagogue we should have seen coming a decade ago;
5. Cultural civil wars are going to take place in every nation as a result of inequality;
6. Lesser developed nations are going to face awful circumstances in the battle between globalism and nationalism/protectionism;
7. Developed nations will have it a bit better, but not much;
8. Automation and environmental crises are imminent gas on the fire in re: 1-8;
9. We’ll need radical policies like UBI to face a future where 50% of jobs are gone;
10. The current political squabbles focusing on individual leaders and social policy differences between the parties are robbing us of time and resources better spent on serious solutions to the crises;
11. Our political systems are hopelessly dysfunctional and pretty much co-opted by small politically connected or wealthy interests.
