Indeependent
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I work in Uniondale and know people in Roosevelt and Hempstead.How many Black people (yes, let's be honest here about who is working moving those Amazon boxes) in your town lost their jobs due to Amazon?Neighborhoods consisting of that current manual labor have high crime rates.I know people who were going to lose their jobs but gave in to working with Amazon.
Do you believe that delivering boxes to and from a warehouse will not soon be automated?
Warehouse jobs are expected to soon be automated, so will a ton of other jobs, how will our society, middle class, and economy cope, without some kind of central planning?
You know why?
Because they have minimum wage jobs.
The answer, as it has always been, is getting an education.
Not necessarily true.
First off, the collective job market will crumble with massive amounts of automation.
Simply because consumerism will fall flat.
Second off, My Pawling, NY is far more blue collar, and modest income than Scarsdale, NY, but we have slightly lower crime rates.
That is with us having a sizable Illegal Guatemalan / Illegal Ecuadorian population, and several Bars, and Taverns.
Its definitely without a doubt, largely more of a racial, and somewhat cultural issue.
Poverty might play some role, but I'm skeptical of what portion.
Not a heck of a lot of Black people in Pawling, but a bunch over in Poughkeepsie, and Newburgh, and I'm certain some lost jobs due to retail jobs busted due to Amazon knocking out those retail employers.
They're working in all the restaurants opening up due to the Trump economy.