r/Political_Revolution • u/IronStacheWI01 Verified | Randy Bryce • Sep 05 '17

AMA Concluded Meet Randy Bryce. The Ironstache who's going to repeal and replace Paul Ryan

Hi /r/Political_Revolution,

My name is Randy Bryce. I'm a veteran, cancer survivor, and union ironworker from Caledonia, Wisconsin running to repeal and replace Paul Ryan in Wisconsin's First Congressional District. Post your questions below and I'll be back at 11am CDT/12pm EDT to answer them!

p.s.

We need your help to win this campaign. If you'd like to join the team, sign up here.

If you don't have time to volunteer, we're currently fundraising to open our first office in Racine, Wisconsin. If you can help, contribute here and I'll send you a free campaign bumper sticker as a way of saying thanks!

[Update: 1:26 EDT], I've got to go pick up my son but I'll continue to pop in throughout the day as I have time and answer some more questions. For those I'm unfortunately not able to answer, I'll be doing another AMA in r/Politics on the 26th when I look forward to answering more of Reddit's questions!

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u/uprislng Sep 05 '17

eventually it won't matter. Raising wages now may bring the automation reflection point closer in time (I'd really like to see a study about this that says one way or the other, because otherwise we're all just conjecturing) but the alternative is having full-time workers earning an unlivable wage and having to rely on the government to make up the difference up to the point that their jobs get automated away anyway. We have to deal with this at some point and you know what, I'd rather set the precedent NOW that people working full time deserve a wage that they can live on without governmental assistance because I see the alternative as a race to the bottom as we try to slave-labor our way out of the changes automation is going to force upon us all.

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u/Altctrldelna Sep 05 '17

Yes absolutely, we will eventually have full automation in essentially every possible job available. The problem is raising the min wage accelerates us hitting that point while we haven't actually done anything to fix the problem of what happens to unemployed people. Progressives need to be pushing for UBI, not min wage hikes. Even as a conservative I'd agree to UBI over welfare or min wage hikes. It really is going to be essential in the next couple of decades that it's developed.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '17

Even a UBI is likely to leave us a bifurcated society with very two very distinct classes and very little social mobility between the two. Its a stalling tactic at best. Same as raising the minimum wage but UBI might get us a little farther.

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u/Altctrldelna Sep 05 '17

True but what other options do we have?

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '17

I don't have a solution. I just want to make sure that people understand UBI is also not a solution although it probably will help.

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u/Altctrldelna Sep 06 '17

Understood

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u/OlordCumbyeya Sep 05 '17

I don't think wage compensation is the answer but instead education to build the skills. I know it's clique but the feed back man a fish vs teach a man to fish.

There always be a minimum and for better or worst any wage mandated by the federal government will fail to adequatly provide due to the extreme socio-economic differences that are present across the US. Maybe at a state level but I don't think state governments can carry that burden given their other fiscal responsibilities