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Don't agree with you. As a kid I learned to work with home electrical wiring, and electricity. Got shocked a few times, but learned a lot. Also, my father used to give me all kinds of things to take apart and put back together. Today I can repair or tune home boilers, know plumbing, carpentry, enough about mechanics to repair my own vehicles, reload my ammo, hunt, fish, proficient with taping, painting, and home remodeling...
It's more so kids like screwing around with stuff, dropping it(and how!), or throwing it. You may not throw a loaded gun around you saw lying around because you've been taught well...other kids will decide to play Cowboy and Indian. That tractor kid probaly won't break it...it will break when he chases his friends as a joke and it falls into a ditch.
If your bored, type "broken" and "kids" into craigslist. Power surges and water damage ain't got nothing on the "kid damage".
I suspect the titantic sank when the captain was letting some kid play with the captains wheel.
I think some of these problems are indicative of poor parenting in combination with poor teaching. For all we know the child in that video is taught to understand that chasing someone in heavy machinery is not a wise thing to do.
You realize, of course, that China is facing a demographic crisis that -- unless they start shooting citizens upon reaching age 70 -- is going to cripple that country in the coming years. The crisis is real and looming fast, which explains a great deal of their breakneck economic growth. The Chinese, you see, are racing against time.
Right now, at this very moment, the Chinese have the largest working age population that they ever will. Around 2014, the number of working age Chinese will begin to decrease, according to the United Nations. And the decrease will not be gradual. It will be a plunge. Imagine the biggest, scariest roller coaster. Imagine the slow climb to the top, followed by the gut-wrenching drop. That's what things are going to be like in the coming years for China.
What's more, manufacturing jobs are beginning to leave China right now, chiefly because labor costs have increased at roughly 20% a year for the past several years. Had you attended a furniture trade show last year, you would have seen a lot of product made in China and shipped over in containers. Had you attended one in the past few months, you would have seen that a lot of that manufacturing migrated rather quickly to places such as Vietnam and Indonesia.
Whilst americans have been spunking their incomes on worthless trinkets, the chinese have built up various sovereign wealth funds, buying mines in africa, factories throughout the world and so on, all in all with over $1 trillion managed. I wouldnt worry about chinese pensioners...so long as the world population keeps growing and they own the means to production the world needs, they'll survive quite comfortably off yields from that, regardless of internal demographics. Sovereign wealth fund - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It's more so kids like screwing around with stuff, dropping it(and how!), or throwing it. You may not throw a loaded gun around you saw lying around because you've been taught well...other kids will decide to play Cowboy and Indian. That tractor kid probaly won't break it...it will break when he chases his friends as a joke and it falls into a ditch.
If your bored, type "broken" and "kids" into craigslist. Power surges and water damage ain't got nothing on the "kid damage".
I suspect the titantic sank when the captain was letting some kid play with the captains wheel.
Well, I am old and maybe kids aren't that way anymore. My most memorable experiences from childhood are those where my father and mother allowed me to explore and experience everything around me. As long as I din't harm anybody, anything, nor myself, I was free to trow things, break things, to hunt, to help with everything that has to be done in the farm or home, and so on. Instead of trowing old or broken radios, clocks, and other things in the trash, my father handed them to me to play with. It was up to me to decide what I wanted to do, from fixing it, to using it for parts. He used to give me knives, machetes, sharpening stones, axes, and all kinds of things that could hurt me, but I learned instead. I made my own fishing harpoons (he gave me a diving mask), I learned to build toy guns that would shoot pebbles. These guns were loaded like a musket with powder I got from match heads or from firecrackers
If you get the kids involved on what you do, from a very early age, they would only play "cowboys and indians" with loaded guns because you haven't taught them gun safety, or because they have learned being unsafe from you or others around them. There was a rule I was to follow: "what you kill you eat," so I never caught a fish nor shot a bird I was not to eat.
Whilst americans have been spunking their incomes on worthless trinkets, the chinese have built up various sovereign wealth funds, buying mines in africa, factories throughout the world and so on, all in all with over $1 trillion managed. I wouldnt worry about chinese pensioners...so long as the world population keeps growing and they own the means to production the world needs, they'll survive quite comfortably off yields from that, regardless of internal demographics. Sovereign wealth fund - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Too many old people in Asia is a gigantic crisis.
One little tibit rarely covered is that the elderly depress wages and labor costs. Many of the elderly come from an poorer era. They'll work for stupidly low wages and profit margins until they croak.
In Korea where I lived...elderly manual labor was widespread. Hire a mover? Expect a 60 year old man.
Hire a mechanic? Some guy who looks like clint eastwood shows up(with chair!). I never saw a tailor under 40. Security guard younger than 30? pfft....
In 20-30 years labor costs will explode(old people tend to retire). Less young people and the few that are will not work for the pennies they're grandfather did let alone train for those "UN-educated" jobs. They can't all be I.T. Specialists and gourmet chefs.
If the labor costs as a whole rise too much; facilities move to cheaper locales and they end up exactly where the USA is now....with even less people and resources(lose-lose).
In the USA this was always offset by immigration....We didn't let millions of poor immigrants, illegals, and slaves for decades into the USA because we liked diversity: cheap. labor. pool. Contrary to popular belief, third world countries have plenty of educated labor....such as India which is conveniently on friendly terms with most of the world unlike China. If India can get it's infrastructure together and fix it's politics; China might get a new rust belt.
Asia by contrast is very unwelcoming of large amounts of immigrants. They've tried various schemes so far to import people with mixed "success"(Japanese Brazillians...).
America can't compete with china because American companies refuse to copy cheaply made Chinese domestic products and make them cheaper than the cheap Chinese copies of the American things they copy and keep sending over here.
Because no American wants to work for 3 dollars an hour
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