You made a specific claim:

> you make up nonsense about Taxis

Which I asked you to explain.
You replied without doing so.

If you can’t support your own statements here… well, not sure why you want to appear so foolish in front of us all.

Basically, not surprised you disagree with the facts here.

Debate? You’d need to know the basics of economics and understand what’s going on before there can be a debate.

Denying any knowledge about the economic state of the West, or Capitalism…or your own posts…

I’m not attempting to force anyone to give me basic data, that’s you.

> Meanwhile, absolute poverty in the West soars.

Any stats on that?

> And you defend
Capitalism, refusing to see alternates.

I don’t know about Capitalism: but I did write about globalisation: which parts did you not like?

> Then you make up nonsense about
Taxis…

Which bit are you saying was made up?

JV
PS – would be more helpful to the debate if you gave, as a matter of course, the specifics of your response: rather than force others to ask you.

http://www.wavevolution.org

Thanks for your plan.

Meanwhile, absolute poverty in the West soars. And you defend Capitalism, refusing to see alternates. Then you make up nonsense about Taxis…

Because:
(a) the west is going to become slowly poorer over the next 20 years: when compared to the rest of the world that will become less poor quite fast, as they rise from a low point and start to get in sight of Western levels of wealth: the reason: globalisation : many jobs once done in the west are now done elsewhere: creating employment elsewhere.

We should celebrate the increasing wealth of the non-West world: the world is becoming a more equal place.

(b) the gap between rich and poor in the West will become wider: because:

i) there will be fewer and fewer jobs for the unskilled (jobs gradually moving away from the West: so the unskilled in the West will be mostly find no work
ii) the same for the semi-skilled jobs too
iii) some pundits that the next wave of IT revolution: will be the destruction of white-collar office jobs: moving info between IT systems and interfacing between people and IT information: developments in usability, increased computer-to-computer joined-up-ness, and the advent of simple AI that can be given tasks via a text command: and will be able to process simple spreadsheets and data etc.
c) the highly-skilled, demanding jobs will continue: and the salary for these will get further away from the unskilled/semi-skilled jobs: and from the skilled but ‘humdrum’ jobs.

Now, this all will happen over 20 years: but in that period there will be ups and downs, when in the West we will feel a bit better off than last year, and sometimes a bit worse off.

It’s not stoppable now…. even if we froze globalisation (which would not help the non-West poor anyway).

To bring the general argument down to the detail level:

Taxi-driving in the UK: 30 years ago the British drivers could make a living from it: now many towns allow anyone to be a taxi driver if they pass the tests: so in my small market town, the taxi drivers all well over 50% non British: Albanian, Afghani and etc.

But come 5-10 years: when the Google car technology matures: there will be no jobs for taxi-drivers anymore… all gone.