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Originally Posted by anonymous
I just don't understand why you believe we won't be producing anything.
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Because of the steady outsourcing of American manufacturing over the past 30 years. Look at most of the tools, appliances, clothes, and toys in your home. You'll be very hard-pressed to find one made in America. Even many of our "American" cars are, in fact, manufactured in Mexico these days.
If the American farmer survives another 30 years it will be a miracle. The American farmer has almost been completey wiped out in favore of corporate agri-business, which is destroying the land.
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Originally Posted by anonymous
Nanotech, biotech, pharmaceuticals, advanced software development, alternative fuels/energy, geospatial information systems, robotics - these are just a few sectors of our economy that currently do, or will, produce goods.
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Sure. But the bulk of the population can't all be scientists, engineers, and doctors. Scientists, engineers, and doctors all need to eat, and I sure hope they wear clothes. An economy where the most basic needs (food, tools, clothes) are nearly all imported is an economy destined for trouble. Look at the Roman Empire.
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Joe and Jane Sixpack will find jobs deep in the bowels of one of these sectors; they won't be very advanced, but their old jobs at Levi's weren't that great anyway.
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Yes, they were. My step-mother had one of those jobs at a Levi's factory. Really good job. Good pay and good benefits. Hard work? Yeah, you betcha. Really hard work. But Americans aren't afraid of hard work.
The economy you are describing is pretty much where our neo-con leaders are taking us: A society divided between the affluent very rich and the desitute poor. With the majority falling in the "poor" category. The middle class can't survive on service industry jobs, and our democracy will not long survive the death of the middle class.
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