We can't explain the current trend toward inequality as help for people going to college--the greatest leveling tool we've ever had--was slashed by Reagan? As manufacturing jobs went overseas, healthcare got more expensive, and social programs were gutted?
Clearly I'm a big honkin' liberal, but I think socio-economic stratifcation would become more entrenched unless education kept pace to keep those put out of work by synthetic labor employable.
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Date: 2008-07-01 08:31 pm (UTC)Clearly I'm a big honkin' liberal, but I think socio-economic stratifcation would become more entrenched unless education kept pace to keep those put out of work by synthetic labor employable.