Technology increasing inequality because … Fauci shuts down Rand Paul … and MORE!
Economists Pin More Blame on Tech for Rising Inequality: Recent research underlines the central role that automation has played in widening disparities. Daron Acemoglu, an influential economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been making the case against what he describes as “excessive automation.” The economywide payoff of investing in machines and software has been stubbornly elusive. But he says the rising inequality resulting from those investments, and from the public policy that encourages them, is crystal clear.
In an explosive exchange, Dr. Fauci destroys a Rand Paul…
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