What Is Even Happening?

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Without logical childcare models, it's just an economy for the affluent
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Without logical childcare models, it's just an economy for the affluent

Legitimate safety nets aren't the same thing as socialist pipe dreams.

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Ted Bauer
May 28, 2021
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On my worst days, I think the economy will roll forward with stagnant wages, a general lack of care for women, re-training programs that don't work, and a continued burying of heads in sand piles about automation for roughly another 70 years, and then the whole thing will collapse, and there will be no jobs unless you were already affluent, and we're in…

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