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The tax breaks won't work, I'm afraid, as it is always the workers that forced the change. Also, automation did collapse the industrial area of the economy, you just don't want to believe it. The 2nd Industrial Revolution caused the collapse of the artisan job sector, just by virtue of (very...

@History Learner, I've done enough research to tell me what you are saying is surprisingly false (though, to be honest, I haven't bookmarked said research). You can't save industrial-focused economies. You just can't. You constantly forget that automation has been a thing since the 2nd...

That wouldn't work from where I'm sitting, especially since what I said took place in OTL. None, unless you've got someone as charismatic as Theodore 'Bull Moose' Roosevelt that built a party from the ground up for a better part of the decade. That's a rub for the various 'third party' groups...

... and you would think why I want to have CEOs, Presidents, the Board of Directors, and the major stockholders (i.e. stockholders that own low double digits of the stock value) rigged with shaped charge collars that would detonate the moment the investigation found the company of negligence?

It wouldn't work out that way when it hits reality, as the companies will find a way to bypass it or start throwing money to repeal it.

A period of US (and some European countries) history where life is literally pennies on the dollar, profit above all else and damn the consequences, and is basically real-life cyberpunk without the cybernetic augmentation aspect. Gilded Age is so termed because if you're in the upper-middle...

Unions were only a (comparatively) tiny part of the issue, the big problem is that the culture of the stockholders changed immensely and thanks to the US pushing the geopolitical model of 'trade or else' upon most of the world in a two-part bid to contain the Soviets (and Chinese) and to prevent...

The core problem in comparing the US to Europe is the fact that Europe generally has a far healthier relationship between corporations and worker's unions. That and they did outsource much of the intermediate production (i.e. all the parts between raw material to finished product) anyway. Then...

Only because 1) there is a pandemic going on and you'll need to keep the money flowing or cause a situation that simply induces a revolution, 2) people keep forgetting that a capitalist economy is -at its most basic level- a cycle of money transference and thus must keep the cycle moving or it...