Look who's emerged from his Y2K bunker!
Wow, Kunstler makes all this sound really, really series ...
That would suggest that you either don't read very much or the manner you value reading material is 'innovative'. I gave up on him when he got into the service economy.
Truck driving is a service job. So is accountanting, engineering, architecture, industrial design, network administration, etc.
When these occupations are employed by a manufacturer — they are counted as doing manufacturing jobs. When the jobs are outsourced — to specialty companies, private contractors, etc. — they count as service jobs. A lot of the apparent shift to “services” was just a statistical sleight-of-hand.
Same goes, in spades, for service jobs connected to global companies — where the high-end jobs are in the U.S. & the shop floor jobs are in low-wage countries. This has been a huge benefit to the U.S. & it is nothing at all like “taking in each other's laundry”.
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I’m not totally against all cussing but it dawned on me while reading this; cuss words make you seem less believable.
Seemed like I was listening to the drunk at the end of the bar. He could be right, but who pays any attention?