"I don't like redistribution of income but there won't be any
alternative once jobs disappear."
You don't know that. People may find unique ways to solve their problems.
"Pretending that things will just muddle along somehow could be
dangerous as the US has drifted towards becoming a police state in
recent years and economic upheaval that is unprepared for might make
things worse."
I don't believe you can fundamentally make things better by threatening
people with violence. Every time we pass a law and include people in our
plans, who don't want to be included in our plans, we have to threaten
them with violence, or they'll simply opt-out. It's this fundamental
shift towards institutionalized violence which may be creating the
police state. When government is simple, and threatens violence only for
fundamental breeches of security, then we live in a society which has
very little institutionalized violence. The more power the state
assumes, in order to try to solve problems which may not even exist, the
more violence it must incorporate into its very institution.
Craig
