How do we break the cycle of accelerating inequality, if we continue on the present trajectory? Putting our faith in the largess of corporate executives, continuing to allow unions to be weakened, continuing to allow truly mind bending levels of dark money corporate and billionaire spend in elections, continuing to elect legislators that take funding from rich donors (including corporations), continuing to allow Republicans appoint pro-corporate judges to the USSC and Federal benches to continue to erode worker rights, continuing to allow corporate leaders to evade the legal system for crimes of fraud and theft, continuing to allow corporate lobbyists and industry interest groups to actually write legislation (not just influence it), continuing to allow quasi-monopolies form and turn a blind eye to antitrust behavior, allowing corporate lobbyists to actually run the government agencies they used to lobby (seemingly a Trump innovation)?
Genuinely curious, for those who advocate hands-off, free market conservative/libertarian policies. Or even those who support so-called "moderate/centrist" democrats, who have mostly been bought out by the same influencers. Where does the correction come naturally, as power and wealth continue to concentrate? I only see inequality intensifying. The rich don't just have a lock on higher education (60% of students at top colleges have parents in the 1% income bracket), the path to a well-paid job, but they are living substantially longer (20 years on average I've heard).
AI and automation will lay waste to both white collar jobs AND specialized professions like doctors and lawyers in the next 2-3 decades, and entire blue collar industries will vanish (truck drivers, taxi drivers, etc). Who will benefit from this and who will lose out?
How do we not all end up living in Neill Blomkamp's Elysium?
