This type of attitude towards the American people is really the core root of my politics. I've long struggled to classify where that falls on the ideological scale, but economic policy needs to be as loose as it can be while not being detrimental to the people at large.
Luddism for its own sake is silly, but government must steer the way technological innovation impacts its workforce as a major priority.
If you're a technologically advanced nation but your people are bankrupt in every way, who cares about the technology? Your nation sucks.
If you're a technologically advanced nation but your people are bankrupt in every way, who cares about the technology? Your nation sucks.
A nation is comprised of human capital, of *people*. It's not made up of its GDP and technological prowess.
To an extent, the citizens must come first. And that's what government policy should be used to steer.
To an extent, the citizens must come first. And that's what government policy should be used to steer.
You don't just go and infinitely forbid self driving trucks or something. But you phase them in while simultaneously funding programs and retraining to gently start moving the workforce over to critical fields that are appropriate.
And you can tell that this concept of a nation, of a people, and of the welfare of the citizenry, does not enter the calculus of Ben Shapiro whatsoever.
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