On Monday, 18 December 2017 01:48:33 UTC+1, RichA wrote:

When did leftists get it into their heads that the world owes them a living? It doesn't. That's why people MOVE. Unless they are comfy in Hawaii, at tax-payer expense.

Do you suppose, for one moment, that the world lacks the cash to support all the people of the world in quite decent comfort?

It is no longer about politics but about human survival.
We are on the precipice of a post-human workforce with a massive overburden of available workers.

If success is about maintaining the largest number of human beings on this planet then we have riches beyond the dreams of avarice.

Inequality breeds resentment. Inequality breeds a massive imbalance of power over our individual futures and individual safety of our life support systems.

If your sociopathic politics were to transferred to a post-AI/robotics world then the obvious result is mass unemployment.
Job-less-ness on a scale which defies all logic or imagination.

Each new generation must find tasks for the numbers of human hands and minds available.
Put simply: The work available consumes the available workforce.
Most jobs today are almost completely pointless.
Built in obsolescence helps to keep the factories and services chugging along.
Each generation must provide enough active consumers of the goods and services provided by their fellow workers.
An imbalance causes mayhem. 1930s, Bank Crashes, The Chinese manufacturing miracle as jobs at home were exported overnight.

Now completely remove the consumers from your brave new world.
Wages for the few remaining jobs are competed for by your globally mobile mass of long-term unemployed.

If wages go down due to over-demand for work then consumption must inevitably go down.
If consumption goes down far enough then even the robots begin to be become unemployed.
Do the robots join the global mass of exhausted unemployed seeking non-existent work?

Where do you suppose the funds for this global freedom of movement to seek work will come from?
Will national borders be suddenly relaxed to allow starving families to seek non-existent work?

You sociopathic viewpoint is equally shared by those in power.
Are you a lobbyist for their ever increasing sociopathy?
Sociopaths have ruled the world since the beginning of human life.
No doubt it drove the early, great human migrations.

All it takes is the greed of an individual to take more than their fair share without engaging basic, human, moral standards:

Tinpot tribal chiefs, warlords, robber barons, royalty competing for greater power and even more obscene wealth.
Even the billionaires of commerce foaming at the mouth at underlings as they build their unnatural monopolies over the newly unemployed opposition.

The countless directors who exported generations of jobs, skills, patents and invaluable home grown technology and skills directly to Asia.
All this in exchange for the latest Audi, a few shares and a golden handshake?
That's sociopathy art work.

When a local factory closes so does literally everything else.
Everybody who depended on the local factory, however indirectly, suffers some loss:

Soon, the only struggling businesses remaining in the high street are charity/thrift shops.
The car showroom and independent car workshops have gone.
The clothes shops.
The stationers and bookshop.
The shoe shop.
The chemist/Pharmacy.
The estate agents.
The carpet showroom.
The cycle sales and workshop has gone.
The motorcycle showroom.
The electronics and TV sales is no more.
The several hairdressers are now down to one.
The shop windows are all blind to the misery.
The jobbing builders, carpenters, plumbers, electricians, flooring specialist are all gone.
No need for vans and tools and materials so the formerly vast general builders supplies has gone after desperately cutting jobs and prices.
The skilled and experienced staff went first.

Now the travelling salespersons have no more sales here.
So they have no need of a café or bar.
Nor the petrol pumps.
Nor the heating oil supplier.
The gas appliance sales and repairer closed up shop.
There were plenty women and girls who used to clean house to keep their heads above water.
Now they have had to wrap their kids up warm rather than use the heating.
The three banks are now down to one.
The two insurance company offices are long closed.
The former three, thriving supermarkets are now down to one with only pre-teenage staff running the show.
The local schools all closed to become an efficient centralized unit miles away by bus.

All this happened in our small town.

Of course they can all move to where the jobs are plentiful...