"HeyBub" wrote in message

The largest business in the US is a business that doesn't manufacture
anything (Wal-Mart). Our country is moving out of the manufacturing and
merchantile era into the information age.

Is that a good thing? Are we all going to work at Wal Mar for $8 and hour
with minimal benefits?


I'm sure there were people, just like you, who lamented the rise of cities
and manufacturing while the agrarian and feudal society languished. There
are parts of the world that haven't even made it to the agricultural phase
yet.

We still feed our own country and assist in the feeding of others that have
not made it to the agricultural phase. Some never will as they do not have
the proper land to grow a decent crop. That does assure our farmers future
employment. Gone is the family farm, here is the large coporate farms with
much more efficiency. We have not yet, and probably never will, lose the
agrarian society unless man evolves so far that he no longer eats food.



We don't need to manufacture our own shirts or mine our own Bauxite to
make aluminium - not if we can get these things cheaper elsewhere. Adam
Smith settled this hash once and for all in the late 18th century.

People really need to keep up.

But we still have to create wealth of some sort to buy the goods from the
people that do make our shirts and mine our bauxite. As we go into the
information age, we are farming out some of that work to India. Did you see
60 Minutes last week? We are now farming out some of out major medical
procedures also.

In the "information" age you tout, Electric Boat laid off thousands of
skilled workers making $12 to $20+ per hour. Casinos opened up and took
many of those people and gave them jobs at $8 per hour. People liked them
so much they took two How will they afford to buy those shirts in the
future?

People don't need to keep up, they need to look to the future.
--
Ed
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