Eventually, you simply have to go to work for a roof over your head, food and healthcare.
It doesn't really matter if you like it or not. If you current job ceases to exist you will get another job, or you will die.
I would argue that any long-haul trucker or coal miner will have a much higher quality of life when those jobs go away and they re-train for something where they don't have to be away from their families doing dangerous things.
Just be upfront: removing jobs is drowning people. That's it. Don't comfort yourself with "retraining" programs like they mean anything. They don't. Acting like you're giving them an oar is just insulting them on top of taking their livelihoods, so I understand the anger.
No, you don't. Plenty of retired people don't go to work and yet they have all of those things.
of course, retirement is an option.
But we're talking about people that need to re-train, so I'm assuming here we're talking about people who are not yet ready to retire
You make it sound like there are only two choices:
1. Confronting the politics of building a social saftey net in America.
2. Retarding innovation, wasting human potential, etc. etc.
Yet there is a perfectly good third solution that has worked countless times in history when technology has made certain jobs redundant, and will without a doubt continue to work long into the future.
3. Re-skill and get a different job.
> Eventually, you simply have to go to work for a roof over your head, food and healthcare.
I'm glad we finally agree that there are at least three choices, that building a safety net is one of them, and that going to work so that you have a roof, food, and healthcare isn't the only one.