{"id":74949,"date":"2020-08-13T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74949"},"modified":"2020-08-12T23:07:34","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T04:07:34","slug":"74949","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74949","title":{"rendered":"They Were Expendable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>All the people working from home because of the Democrats&#8217; Covid-19 response think they are essential. No, their jobs were declared essential to prevent widespread unrest, but the individuals performing the function are not essential. They are largely&nbsp; interchangeable personnel units.<\/p><p>If a job can be done from my basement in Como Park, it could be done from a warehouse in Bombay, India. Think about this Summer as a giant dry run for outsourcing your job.<br>&nbsp;The Luddites were right, in the end.<\/p><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s true in all too many cases &#8211; although there are quite a few jobs where that has historically worked out very badly, mine (fingers crossed) among &#8217;em. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But is this something that&#8217;s being harnessed to pave the way for &#8220;Universal Basic Income&#8221;?   Which is another term for &#8220;Universal Dependence on Government&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the people working from home because of the Democrats&#8217; Covid-19 response think they are essential. No, their jobs were declared essential to prevent widespread unrest, but the individuals performing the function are not essential. They are largely&nbsp; interchangeable personnel units. If a job can be done from my basement in Como Park, it could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74949"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75001,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74949\/revisions\/75001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}