Everybody is playing his or her violin for sympathy, as Rome burns and the rest of the world with it. Does this suggest perhaps that wealth inequality is something that may be causing real people real problems? If we had met in the middle, the rich would have gotten only a moderately big tax cut. Maybe it will only mean that if 7 million Americans lose their cars, they won’t need them anyway because their jobs have disappeared, too. As the machines get smarter and smarter, let’s just continue to play dumb and dumber.

Source: Washington Post February 13, 2019 14:48 UTC