Dean Baker for Truthout: The automation story is likely attractive to many people since it pins the blame for inequality on the natural development of technology.
The US has rarely taken back health benefits once they have been bestowed. These historical precedents can provide insights for the current debate.
Mark Weisbrot is codirector of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. and president of Just Foreign Policy. He is also the author of Failed: What the "Experts" Got Wrong About the Global Economy (2015, Oxford University Press). You can subscribe to his columns here.
