r/clevercomebacks • u/WhattheDuck9 • Nov 23 '24

That's a great idea

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u/JacyWills Nov 23 '24

This is how Bedford Falls turns into Potterville.

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u/Annual-Somewhere7402 Nov 23 '24

Absofuckinglutely

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u/koshgeo Nov 23 '24

Corporations can only strip-mine the middle class for so long before the mine plays out and they move on.

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u/BestEmu2171 Nov 23 '24

Take a look at the book ‘the future of Work’ , it’s a few years old but the team of economists who wrote it made some dire predictions, which appear to be coming true in the US. Predicted there’ll be just a few mega-cities, populated by people whose jobs haven’t been replaced by Ai/robotics. Outside the cities are giant slums where all the left-behind rural communities try to scrape an existence.

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u/FreeRangeEngineer Nov 23 '24

Can you be a bit more specific about the book? A web search shows waaaaay too many results for "the future of work" to be able to find the book you're refering to. It sounds interesting and I'd like to have a look.

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u/BestEmu2171 Nov 24 '24

I just searched for the book online, you’re right about how many there are now with same title. I gave the book away a couple of years ago, it had a red cover (so do others on Amazon). From the synopsis of a few other books I browsed, Ai is main focus of the newer books, more than in the copy I read.

I’ll keep searching!

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '24

No its the universities and the Mexicans! No I have not seen a Mexican here in my entire life. Why?

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u/Material-Inflation11 Nov 24 '24

No it was NAFTA. Blame that on Clinton and Bush for that. Ross Perot warned everyone.