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Originally Posted by Ithekro
Hence there were a lot of upset people in Middle America who voted Trump. Places were manufacturing was a way of life for generations, or other such things that are either being sent overseas because it is cheaper, or the job is handled more efficiently via automation, or in some farming cases, it is cheaper to hire under the table immigrant (legal and illegal) for less than the present wage scales per state.
With the amount if automation and other jobs going away, we have more people than jobs it would appear. What do you do then? Hire four people to do ten hours of a forty hour a week job? A lot of companies do just that so they don't have to pay benefits. They can easily toss aside one and replace them because there are so many people looking for work...of all ages now.
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This is where having a basic income is valuable, as the development of automation means conventional means of economic activity and wage earning starts breaking down, a basic income give people the freedom to pursue their optimal pursuits, which would enable a new economic form to be generated from that.
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It seems the President-elect may continue to break the tradition started by Carter in 1979:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politi...cid=spartandhp
The question will be what will he do as President? There is no going back to the pre-1972 model of the Republic of China being China and the Mainland being ignored, but there is not real logic for continuing with the idea that there is the People's Republic of China, and a rogue province of Taiwan that no one speaks of. Because the truth is their are two countries over there, and it might be time to be respectful of that fact.
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The PRC reaction wouldn't be any different than what the Russians did regarding Crimea, especially given how the US activity over the past 70 years was basically no different that the UK controlling Hong Kong. A separate Taiwan serves as a reminder of colonial interference in the Chinese political zeitgeist, and that would still be the case even if the PRC were a liberal democratic state. Harry Turtledove's book 'How Few Remain' and its sequels give a good example of that sentiment.
EDIT: In the end I'd expect little from this statement as internal political wrangling in and under the Trump administration to be the bigger focus for Trump, and any given actions are more for gaining economic concessions than anything else.